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On May 21 financial regulators in New York released new guidance to help businesses understand the cybersecurity measures they should implement when they find themselves in a "heightened threat environment.” We’ll pause for moment here while everyone quietly mutters, “For pete’s sake, we...
Not long ago the Institute of Internal Auditors released its annual North America Pulse of Internal Audit report , polling nearly 400 chief audit executives on their challenges, plans, and hopes for the next few years. If we’re being frank, the findings were a bit of a buzzkill. ...
Financial reporting and SOX compliance teams are always looking for ways to reduce the risk of erroneous financial reporting, and one cutting-edge strategy to achieve that is through continuous controls monitoring. The idea certainly sounds appealing. With clever use of technologies...
Another amazing year is in the books, and it’s all thanks to members like you. You showed up time after time. You engaged in discussions, read blogs, attended webinars, and supported chapters. You helped make 2025 our best year yet. Before we ring in 2026, we’ve compiled the ultimate 'Best of...
Internal audit teams at companies preparing to go public face a tricky balancing act in their journey toward Sarbanes-Oxely readiness. Namely, how do you keep sight of the risk assessment forest through the documentation trees? That is, documenting your internal controls is always going to...
Good data governance is the cornerstone of any successful GRC program, so today let’s talk about something that can often be a mortal threat to good data governance — unstructured data. Unstructured data is just what the name suggests: data that exists somewhere within your enterprise,...
By Matt Kelly Artificial intelligence is transforming all parts of the corporate enterprise — including, unfortunately, frauds launched against your enterprise. Which means your anti-fraud controls must transform too, or else you’ll never keep pace with the threat that AI-enhanced fraud...
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By Matt Kelly, Radical Compliance For more than 20 years now, internal audit and corporate accounting teams have strived to build effective internal accounting controls — necessary for strong financial reporting, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, anti-fraud programs, and more. ...
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The days of a cybersecurity breach being only “an IT issue” are over. During his years as an internal audit leader, Grant Ostler, Executive Advisor of Pro Groups, survived two cybersecurity incidents. And while he can confidently say it is never fun, it’s much more painful to go through one...
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