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  • In Focus

    July 23, 2024
    Global IT systems are still in reboot and recovery after a software update by cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike caused a massive worldwide outage of Windows computers. Global businesses, governments and organisations were impacted across several industries, including airlines, banks, telecommunications, and healthcare. While the dust settles on the specifics of the how and the why of the global…
  • Blogs

    August 22, 2025
    IBP programs often originate with financial planning and analysis (FP&A) leaders, who are called on to inform leadership with forecasts and business insights. In Protiviti’s most recent CFO survey, FP&A, profitability, reporting and analysis, strategic planning, enhanced data analytics and process improvement were identified as top areas where CFOs are seeking to improve capabilities. All…
  • Blogs

    May 5, 2023
    Cybersecurity governance should do more than manage cyber risk. Good cybersecurity governance creates efficiencies by clarifying the outcomes expected from its processes and establishing boundaries of responsibility among cybersecurity practitioners, frontline operational areas, senior leaders and board members. Recently, numerous crises have drawn senior leaders and board members down…
  • Blogs

    January 31, 2024
    Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is a hot topic these days, and not just in the IT world. The statistics indicate off-the-charts interest in GenAI’s capabilities, with AI spending predicted to more than double to $300 billion by 2026. Organisations are gearing up, determining how to best incorporate GenAI to significantly enhance their customer relations, revenue growth, cost…
  • Blogs

    November 6, 2025
    It’s clear that artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming how organisations operate, make decisions and deliver value. Across industries, AI is being integrated into core business processes, not just to automate repetitive tasks, but to enable smarter, faster, and more adaptive operations. Leading companies are quickly moving along the continuum of traditional scripted workflow to…
  • Blogs

    April 19, 2024
    As senior executives face more pressure to respond to rising costs and eroding profit margins, CFOs can remind their colleagues that they have more cost-optimisation strategies than they might expect.Many business leaders reflexively reach for the headcount-reduction lever. This is understandable given the rising cost of labor and that downsizing and reducing year-end bonuses usually hits the…
  • Blogs

    February 23, 2024
    In today’s interconnected world, where adversaries seem to always be one step ahead, companies face an increasingly complex threat landscape. One of the most challenging and often overlooked threats is the dark web, an intentionally hidden part of the internet where threat actors can operate with a greater sense of anonymity. To adequately protect assets, companies need to do more than merely…
  • Blogs

    April 6, 2023
    I am often asked, with all the investments in data management and infrastructure over the last 50 years, why are we still not great with governing data? To put it simply and directly – it’s hard! Data governance programmes are easy to envision conceptually, difficult to implement, and without proper care, impossible to sustain. Often data governance investments have a long ‘time to…
  • Blogs

    July 31, 2023
    Nina Jane Patel, Bloomberg's technology columnist, recently entered the metaverse environment Horizon Venues, a newly launched virtual-reality social platform, to have a look for herself. She found the virtual, extended, augmented and mixed reality, along with other Web 3.0 tools, engaging but also a little too real. She unfortunately experienced some “creepy” encounters that included groping,…
  • Blogs

    April 26, 2023
    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…
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