AuditBoard, a provider of cloud-based software for managing and automating risk, audit, and compliance work, has announced the release of a new risk management offering, RiskOversight. AuditBoard says the new product, an expansion of its platform, was built to elevate and execute risk management programs across the enterprise—including risk identification, Read More
SPONSORED ARTICLE Insurance company Allstate may be known for its chaos-causing spokesperson, but the way the business operates is anything but mayhem. The insurer has enjoyed decades of steady growth and is considered a leader in categories across the board. Allstate’s internal audit department is no exception and has long Read More
Cyrptocurrencies, like Bitcoin and Ethereum, have their supporters and their naysayers. No matter what you think about the usefulness of these virtual currencies, however, their emergence has given rise to an underlying technology that nearly everyone agrees will be invaluable to the future of finance and accounting: Blockchain. While blockchain Read More
SPONSORED ARTICLE: When Jae Kyung Gianelloni accepted a job at Caesars Entertainment as Director of Performance Assurance in the internal audit department in 2017, she knew she had a lot of work to do. The company was still running what Gianelloni describes as a “compliance-focused internal audit shop,” and the Read More
Companies are struggling to keep their networks secure, particularly when they involve cloud computing, but an emerging technology—machine learning—could provide some help to eliminate unauthorized communication in your cloud. One of the biggest challenges of managing network security is understanding the environment: What assets are present? How are they communicating? Read More
A new study finds that companies are increasingly putting internal audit in charge of Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) internal controls compliance, rather than departments such as financial reporting or legal. The survey, conducted by the SOX & Internal Controls Professionals Group, finds that 46 percent of respondents report that internal audit Read More
The SOX & Internal Controls Professionals Group today released the findings of its “ 2019 State of the SOX and Internal Controls Market Survey.” The survey, which was conducted in partnership with Workiva, measures the costs, execution, challenges and priorities faced by companies that comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). Read More
Businesses today cannot be separated from their digital assets. Data drives every aspect of business, from strategic decisions to tactical operations, and all that data is stored in, accessed by, and transmitted across networked systems. Keeping cyber risks under control is a critical issue for any company. Even small, non-tech-oriented Read More
Security pros know that compliance does not equal security, yet compliance continues to be a top driver for security investment. Given that compliance and audit mandates are more tangible measures for non-security executives, requesting support for tools and processes that help meet these requirements is an excellent lever to pull Read More
Facebook will pay a record-breaking $5 billion penalty, and submit to major new privacy restrictions and a modified corporate structure, to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that the company violated a 2012 FTC order by deceiving users about their ability to control the privacy of their personal information. The whopping Read More
