Name: Utilizing Technology to Advance Internal Audit in a New Risk Environment
Start: 2023-07-19T13:00:00Z
End: 2023-07-19T13:00:59.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 5

AuditBoard is the leading cloud-based platform transforming audit, risk, compliance, and ESG management. Nearly 50% of the Fortune 500 leverage AuditBoard to move their businesses forward with greater clarity and agility. AuditBoard is top-rated by customers on G2, Capterra, and Gartner Peer Insights, and was recently ranked for the fifth year in a row as one of the fastest-growing technology companies in North America by Deloitte. To learn more, visit: AuditBoard.com.

Recent disclosure laws, such as California’s SB253, SB261, and AB1305; standards and directives in Europe like the CSRD; and the SEC's proposed climate disclosure rules pose significant reporting risk should teams fail to adequately prepare. However, by making strategic investments early in your maturity journey, you can turn those challenges into opportunities.

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ESG in 2024: How Companies are Preparing for the Coming Disclosure Requirements

After almost four years of perpetual risk-induced disruption, internal auditors are ready to put the era of permacrisis behind them. But 2024 will likely bring more of the same. Join Richard Chambers for a webinar, with a focus on the key lessons learned in the past year, the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for internal auditors, and five New Year’s resolutions every internal auditor should commit to.

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5 Internal Auditor Resolutions for the Year Ahead

As regulations expand amid today’s dynamic risk environment, including the new SEC ruling on cybersecurity disclosures, organizations struggle to stay in compliance and determine the most cost-effective methods to protect their business from emerging threats. Additionally, many organizations are still managing IT risks with an ad-hoc, reactive approach, and are lacking effective mitigating action plans, leaving them at elevated risk of a data breach or privacy violation. 

This session will explore the benefits of an effective IT risk management program, provide steps teams can take to immediately begin addressing shortfalls and gaps in their program, and lay out a framework for ensuring the successful implementation of these tactics.

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ISACA Webinar - 3 Forward-thinking Practices to Manage IT Risks

Data silos, legacy systems, and disconnected teams can hinder a company's ability to manage risk effectively across the three lines. Join Melissa Pici, Senior IT Audit Manager at Syniverse, who will share five keys to successfully driving an integrated audit, risk, and compliance program, including how to best leverage technology to turn risk knowledge into a competitive advantage.

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Breaking Down Silos: 5 Keys to Connected Data and Teams

Learn from audit and professional practice leaders about how they’re redefining and bolstering their internal audit departments’ role, function, and processes. They’ll share how they’ve adopted new strategies, technologies, and methodologies to improve effectiveness, efficiency, and value-added capabilities.

What to gain from this session:
- Describe the factors influencing the need for internal audit transformation.
- Identify critical components of internal audit transformation.
- Explain potential advantages of internal audit transformation.
- Develop a roadmap for internal audit transformation within their organizations.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement within the internal audit function, including strategies for engaging stakeholders to gain support for internal audit transformation initiatives.

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Taming the Elusive Risk: Bracing for Risk Exposure With Audit Transformation

In today’s digital-first environment, getting compliance and vendor management right is crucial to achieving strategic business objectives. Managing the scale and complexity of modern IT compliance and risk management requires the right tools and strategy.

Join AuditBoard’s industry experts as we share learnings and best practices on how to leverage our IT compliance, third-party, and IT risk management solutions to defend and strengthen your business.

In this product walkthrough, we’ll cover:
- How to build and scale a multi-framework IT risk and compliance program for your business.
- How to understand your threat landscape, quantify risks, and improve cyber resilience.
- How to streamline vendor evaluation and onboarding as well as visualize and assess your vendor programs to mitigate third-party risks.
- What’s new with AuditBoard.


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AuditBoard Demo: IT Compliance and Risk Management

As NIST CSF grows in adoption by security teams, what are the implications for IT compliance teams? Governance is becoming a core principle of cybersecurity regulations, so how should organizations consider maturing their approach to this topic? This session will dive into the interplay between security and compliance in fortifying your cyber defenses while navigating a complex regulatory environment.

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NIST CSF 2.0 — The Rise of Governance in IT Compliance

For IT security and compliance teams, the paradigm for supporting resilient and secure organizations has shifted. Teams have moved away from application developers and IT operations getting approvals in “high ceremony” handoffs to IT security and compliance to now embedding into the daily work of development and operations.

In this session, Gene Kim will describe why this “shift-left” phenomenon has happened, and how the new patterns that have emerged allow organizations to more quickly and effectively comply with frameworks and increase their cyber resilience by leveraging automation, compliant-by-design, and security-by-design principles. 

Gene will describe theory and practice, including many examples from industry of how IT and compliance leaders have used these practices to help their organizations win, while dramatically increasing security, compliance, and agility.

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Automation and the Future of IT Security, Compliance, and Software Development

2023 was the year artificial intelligence broke through into the mainstream consciousness and into business use cases with the advent of generative AI and large language algorithms (LLMs). In 2024, audit, risk, and compliance teams need to prepare for a world of AI-augmented work and decision-making across all functional areas of the enterprise.

IDC predicts that global spending on AI will continue to accelerate to over $301 billion by 2026. This means that companies will need to be prepared to manage AI risk and leverage its capabilities to remain competitive in their markets.

During this session, we’ll explore the CISO perspective on what 2023 has taught us about how enterprises are using AI across the business, and how IT security and compliance teams should think about incorporating AI into their practice.

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How AI Is Radically Reshaping Compliance, Cybersecurity, and Business Strategy

The first third of the 2020s have been coined “the era of permacrisis.” Organizations have navigated extraordinary disruption from a pandemic, geopolitical instability, macroeconomic turbulence, faltering confidence in financial institutions, and an infusion of new and unprecedented technology, sustainability, and other compliance risks. 

Effective governance has never been more challenging nor more critical. Risk and audit stakeholders need forward-looking risk and audit partners with a firm understanding of risk turbulence and an ability to inspire a “connected risk” mindset. 

Hear Richard Chambers share the transformation imperatives audit, risk, and compliance leaders must prioritize to collectively serve the board and executives in the ongoing era of permacrisis.

From this session, be able to:
- Understand how audit, risk, and compliance leaders can join forces to understand and proactively address the modern risk era.
- Discuss top transformation priorities for audit, risk, and compliance teams.
- Understand ways to bring these transformations to their organization no matter the state of maturity of their programs.
- Communicate the impact of a connected risk program and gain buy-in for strategic asks.

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Risk and Audit Transformation in the Era of Permacrisis

Join us as RSM discusses the impact of the latest SEC rules on cybersecurity, highlighting the crucial link between these regulations and the development of a robust data governance framework. Discover how this robust data governance framework empowers organizations to harness the transformative potential of generative AI for a more secure and efficient future.

Tune in to learn how to: 
- Describe the implications of new SEC rules on cybersecurity and their significance in the evolving landscape of IT governance and compliance.
- Explore the key components of a mature data governance model and how it serves as a foundation for effective risk management and regulatory compliance.
- Identify the synergistic relationship between robust data governance and the implementation of generative AI, and how this integration can enhance operational efficiency and security.
- Apply practical strategies and best practices to adapt to these changes and leverage generative AI technology while maintaining a strong focus on governance, risk management, and compliance.

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SEC Rulings to AI Transformation: The Importance of IT Governance and Compliance

Businesses are facing challenges in aligning their supply chain operations with their environmental, social and governance values, targets, and ambitions, along with their business strategy. This is becoming increasingly important as investors, regulators, and customers increasingly demand greater transparency and accountability for organisations’ ESG practices within their supply chains. Due diligence in engaging and selecting suppliers has also become critical. Internal audit has a role to play in this area–particularly in providing assurance and supporting due diligence–to ensure that these risks are being identified, managed and effectively mitigated.

Join this webinar to:
- Gain a better understanding of the growing importance of ESG-related supply chain risks and how these risks can impact your business.
- Recognize how decarbonising supply chains is critical to delivering Net Zero, and the importance of other environmental sustainability considerations in supply chain management.
- Recognize the importance of social and governance considerations in supply chain management.
- Identify key ways to measure the effectiveness of ESG risk management programs.
- Discover how internal audit can contribute to successful environmental, social and governance due diligence and risk management for their supply chains.

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Supply Chain ESG Risks: Harnessing the Potential of Internal Audit

Companies around the globe are grappling with a myriad of business-critical risks such as supply chain disruption, staffing shortages, and increasing cyber threats — just to name a few. As the temptations and opportunities for fraud have increased, fraudsters have taken advantage of the situation by using ever more sophisticated tools to commit their crimes. 

This rising risk makes it imperative that companies and internal audit functions stay vigilant when it comes to defending against fraud.

Join this webinar to: 
- Learn why regular fraud risk assessments are a fundamental practice for internal audit teams.
- Discover how internal audit teams can take a more proactive role in the fight against fraud.
- Understand why in periods of heightened volatility, it is vital for internal audit functions to constantly revisit the fraud triangle (motivation, opportunity, rationalization) to help anticipate fraud, and how this can be applied in practice.
- Learn how Internal audit can raise awareness around fraud and act as a trusted advisor to the board and senior management on areas that need improvement.
- Learn how internal audit functions should prepare for increased scrutiny and accountability on fraud from the government, regulators, and the public.

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Tackling Fraud in Today’s Dynamic Risk Environment

You are invited to AuditBoard Live, hosted by Sara Siegal, Manager of Product Solutions! This is a product walk-through.

In this webinar, we will be showcasing the basic functionality of our AuditBoard Annotate solution, providing you with insights and practical skills to minimize your team’s time spent testing and reviewing without sacrificing quality.

By attending our session, you will learn...

- How to simplify and centralise your Audit and Internal Controls programs.
- How to accelerate workflows and collaboration across all lines of defense.
- How to streamline your testing with our intuitive tickmarking, referencing, and markup solution.

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Driving Quality and Efficiency in Your Audit Program with AuditBoard Annotate

Achieving supplier sustainability requires a proactive approach that goes beyond traditional methods. Businesses today need to leverage data and analytics to gain transparency and effectively manage risks in their supply chains, while also complying with regulations and meeting the expectations of consumers and regulators. Learn how to leverage data and technology to automate and streamline the process of supply chain risk management, providing actionable insights for effective decision-making. 

Learning objectives from this webinar:
- Recognize the importance of the supply chain transparency in achieving sustainability.
- Understand the importance of leveraging data and analytics for transparent and risk-controlled supply chains.
- Learn about an innovative solution using a multidimensional connected risk approach for proactive supplier sustainability.
- Explore real-world examples and recommendations for achieving sustainable and compliant supply chain practices

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Supply Chain Transparency and Risk Monitoring

Join our webinar, Ctrl+Alt+Audit: Breaking the Mold with Automation, focused on leveraging innovative automation capabilities to enhance internal audit practices. 

In this session, we aim to illuminate the path to modernize internal audits through the fusion of automation and data analytics. After defining intelligent automation, offering insights into how it can reshape conventional audit processes, we'll delve into the strategic reasons why automation is a necessity for businesses seeking to optimize resources, mitigate risks, and accelerate growth. To bring it all together we'll feature a compelling use case, illustrating how automation seamlessly integrates with internal control testing, elevating audit efficiency and precision. You’ll learn essential strategies for seamlessly operationalizing intelligent automation within your organization's audit framework. Don't miss this opportunity to transcend traditional audit methodologies and embrace a future-ready approach powered by cutting-edge technology!

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Ctrl+Alt+Audit: Breaking the Mold with Automation

Integrated Risk Management (IRM) technology is a critical enabler of modern organizational strategy and execution, connecting domains such as Operational Risk Management (ORM), IT Risk Management (ITRM), Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), and Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC). Integrating the four primary risk objectives —  performance, resilience, assurance, and compliance —  can greatly influence an organization's success.

This webinar demystifies the current IRM technology landscape, focusing on market trends, essential capabilities, and practical applications for IRM technology buyers. Attendees will gain valuable insights on how to select and apply IRM solutions that align with organizational goals.

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Mastering IRM Technology: Market Trends and Key Capabilities

Learn more about the just-released Risk in Focus report for North America, which includes insights from in-depth interviews, roundtables, and survey responses from over 4,200 global participants.The session will go in-depth on the findings of the 2024 Risk in Focus report, which provides practical, data-driven research to help internal auditors and their stakeholders understand today’s evolving risk environment and prepare audit plans for the year ahead. 

In this session, participants will:
- Explore the major risks impacting audit plans today.
- Discover the major risks that respondents expect to impact audit plans in 3 years.
- Examine the board briefing document and how it can be used to advise your board members on the key risks impacting your organization. 

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2024 Risk in Focus – Hot Topics for Internal Auditors

Now more than ever, data analytics and new technology will become more prevalent within organizations. Audit will play a strategic role by utilizing these resources to identify new issues and manage emerging risks. This session will discuss best practices for effectively integrating data analytics into an audit program, and explore future possibilities for leveraging RPA and AI.

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