Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by Relevance Date Order Asc Desc Client Story June 7, 2023 Resource backfill, technology and process change drive state procurement improvements Many institutions in the public sector are faced with improving the efficiency and responsiveness of their services and operations to better serve stakeholders and the public. High turnover and lengthy recruiting cycles are creating both a loss of tribal knowledge and an influx of inexperienced resources, leading to significant delays in day-to-day operations. Our client, a state procurement… Podcast June 25, 2021 Podcast | RegTech Transformation Jo Ann Barefoot Next in our Transformation series, guest host Lucy Pearman talks with Jo Ann Barefoot about RegTech innovation from how regulators are using technology to how financial services need to urgently expand their experimentation and adoption rates. Jo Ann Barefoot is CEO & Cofounder of AIR – the Alliance for Innovative Regulation – and host of the global podcast show Barefoot Innovation. A noted… Whitepaper August 13, 2024 Sustainability regulation: ESG disclosures and demand for accountability set the tone for the future In recent years, increasing pressures from a variety of stakeholders have combined to drive companies toward more sustainable practices in their business operations and greater transparency. The real game-changer, however, has been the proliferation of recent global environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting regulations, which require a level of reporting far above the voluntary… Blogs October 5, 2023 Australia’s Privacy Act is fundamentally changing: What this means for your organisation On the 28th of September, the Australian Government released its long-awaited response to the Attorney General’s Privacy Act Review Report. The Government response outlines its stance across the 116 proposals put forward by the Attorney General. In May, we originally published our article analysing the proposed changes that we believe will be most impactful for our clients, we have updated the… Blogs April 26, 2023 COSO issues supplemental guidance on internal control over sustainability reporting – With examples Last Thursday, the Committee of Sponsoring Organisations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) released interpretive guidance on how to effectively apply the 2013 Internal Control — Integrated Framework (ICIF) — which is currently applied to financial reporting — to sustainability reporting. The guidance results from a project approved by the COSO… Insights paper December 22, 2025 Combating Ghost Students and Financial Aid Fraud in Higher Education: A Proactive Approach In recent years, higher education institutions have faced a growing challenge from financial aid fraud, particularly through the phenomenon of “ghost students” – fictitious or non-attending individuals enrolled to extract financial aid funds. This threat was exacerbated during the shift to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, which enabled fraudsters to exploit vulnerabilities in… Whitepaper December 23, 2025 Internal Audit Benchmarks Protiviti and the Association of Healthcare Internal Auditors (AHIA) partner to conduct an annual study examining internal audit functions across a wide range of healthcare provider, payer and integrated delivery systems. The results of the study, with 79 organisations participating this year, are split into a two-part publication. The first, Evolving Risk Landscape Refocuses Healthcare Audit… Podcast January 7, 2026 Podcast | 2026 Predictions and the Road to 40,000 Logical Qubits — with Photonic Let’s look to 2026 and recap a pivotal 2025 with Paul Terry, CEO of Photonic. Explore why the industry has officially moved past the era of noisy qubits into the race for fault-tolerant, "gold-standard" logical qubits. Paul joins host Konstantinos Karagiannis to break down Photonic’s selection for DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative Stage B and explains how their unique distributed… Survey January 22, 2026 From Threats to Transformation: The Key Risks and Opportunities Shaping the Government Sector Protiviti’s 2026 Top Risks Report for the government industry reveals how AI, cyber threats and workforce transformation are reshaping public-sector risk. Whitepaper February 19, 2026 Public Sector Insights: Setting the 2026 Audit Committee Agenda 2026 promises to be another year of increasing demands for audit committee members in Australian federal and state governments. The seven topics we have highlighted for this year’s audit committee agenda reflect a growing array of responsibilities that may extend beyond traditional boundaries. As oversight expectations continue to evolve, many audit committees are being called upon to engage with… Load More