Institute of Internal Auditors

The Institute of Internal Auditors presents All Things Internal Audit Tech.

In this episode, PWC's Tanya Ugoritz and Amanda Herron discuss how organizations can move beyond cybersecurity dashboards to turn data into meaningful risk insights and assurance.

They discuss the importance of aligning cybermetrics with business risks, strengthening collaboration across a three lines model, and using continuous monitoring to identify emerging threats.

The Institute of Internal Auditors presents All Things Internal Audit.

In this companion episode to Internal Auditor Magazine's Most Likely to Innovate article, Adrienne Romero talks with emerging leaders Ashley Morrone and Nisha Nair about building careers shaped by innovation, curiosity, and continuous improvement.

Plus, they break down why innovation doesn't require a total overhaul, showing how starting small and speaking up can turn good ideas into real change.

Sand has called it the single biggest pro-corruption law in Iowa history, and he was not alone in his criticism.

While it was being considered by state lawmakers, among those who spoke out against the proposal were the National State Auditors Association, the Institute of Internal Auditors, and former U.S. Comptroller General David Walker, who served under both Democratic and Republican presidents.

Every government watchdog in America that weighed in on this law said this was going to increase waste, fraud, and abuse of tax dollars in Iowa.

All of them, Sands said at a campaign event in September.

The roundtable was organized by the UPSA Law School, APSA Bank Ghana, and the Ghana Association of Banks with Joy Business as the broadcast partner.

In another development, the Institute of Internal Auditors Ghana has called for stronger collaboration among stakeholders to safeguard the ind- independence of internal auditors and give them the freedom to execute their duties without undue interferences.

President of the institute, Ebenezer Kodjo Miraku, made the call at the association's twenty-fifth anniversary celebration marking its silver jubilee.

The major challenges most of our members face is the independence that they require to do their work.

It doesn't map at all.

And for the first time in my life, I'll be caught officially saying I prefer how the audit guidance from IIA talks about the three lines.

They don't use defense.

They're actually the audit documentation is more flexible than COSO.

We had a minimum viable product by April.

We had customer deployment in May, 2026, and we launched last month at the Institute of Internal Audit and ISACA GRC conference out in San Diego.

But what's interesting is it's a little bit more than your traditional GRC platform because it can do the, a continuous monitoring of your controls.

It can start to look at risk signals that you plug into your business and and respond to them.

But just talent management and how do we find the right talent to meet the need today in an AI world? That's the conversations we're having around the tables to me.

We had, we're going to do this every year going forward, but we had the current IIA president and CEO, Anthony Piazzi on in January.

And it's just kind of like, we're going to do it every, I asked him, I was like, can we do this every January? He said, yeah, but it's going to be basically like, Hey, here's what the IA is doing.

And here's what to look forward to coming into the new year.