The rapid adoption of cloud applications coupled with the exponential growth over the past year of remote workers has increased the importance of streamlined user access. At the same time, employees have increasing consumer grade expectations to access systems anywhere, anytime on any device. This raises the question: How does an organization manage access to mission critical cloud applications, assess application risk, proactively empower use...

According to the Harvey Nash / KPMG CIO Survey 2020, 47 percent of over 4,200 global IT leaders feel the pandemic has permanently accelerated digital transformation and the adoption of emergent technologies, particularly those that enhance customer experiences. The cloud is the digital backbone and infrastructure for transformation and technologies, however adopting the cloud requires a careful consideration of cyber security and compliance. C...

A key to a successful Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) program is robust and effective planning, risk assessment, and scoping processes. Simultaneously, the pandemic, technology advances, regulatory changes, and many other factors disrupted economies and business models at breakneck speed. As a result, SOX programs must react to the impact these changes have on risk and controls environments. Join KPMG and Workiva for a webinar that unpacks the conflict b...

A comprehensive risk and compliance program is essential to successfully running cloud based front office applications. Security and controls are fundamental to this, but how do you design and monitor a security program to optimize data protection and transaction security? Join KPMG on March 17th for a webcast focused on managing risk and compliance for Salesforce, part of our monthly Cross Application Risk Series. Agenda items include: Design...

Today’s market leaders no longer think of their organizations as a linear series of inputs and flows. Instead, they’re building interconnected, digitally enabled and predictive networks with the customer at the center. Divisions between front, middle and back offices are collapsing. Which raises a critical question, how do you transition from on-premise to cloud technology and build a modern enterprise to transform your operations?...

Research indicates that informed customers are more interested in buying from sustainable companies than ever before. Organizations with a reputation for having environmentally sustainable, socially responsible, and good corporate governance practices outperform their competitors. This webcast will explore why finance is uniquely positioned to help organizations identify, report on, and drive Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) commitm...

Learn how digital transformation is driving change in every aspect of how security operates and why incident response must operate in a cloud-centric future. And as IT workloads shift to the cloud, digital forensics and incident response must also cloud-scale. In this edition of the KPMG Road to New Reality webcast series, Automating Incident Response in the Cloud, our panel will feature members of Toyota Motor North America, Amazon Web Servic...

How has the new reality changed the way companies build relationships with their customers? Shifts in consumer behavior, accelerated by COVID-19, require companies to improve the customer experience through a new rhythm of positive interactions—delivered in the digital world. Join a virtual fireside chat with KPMG, Salesforce, and a panel of customer experience executives from top-ranked brands for a discussion on how the leaders deliver...

The Human Resource function has access to a plethora of data, but more often than not, today’s HR analytics are limited to descriptive, focusing on identifying what happened in the past. For example, many HR functions today have tools to identify areas of high turnover and maybe are able to begin to diagnose the underlying reasons for this pattern of employee behavior. But, how do you turn this insight into action to prevent, rather than...

The Biden-Harris team has identified core priority areas including COVID-19, economic recovery, taxes, healthcare, climate and clean energy, and social challenges, among other issues. How will this translate into the Federal Agenda? What will be the biggest challenges for organizations, and what will this mean for the future of business? Don’t miss this webcast, which will be moderated by Lorna Stark, KPMG National Government & Publi...