Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by Relevance Date Order Asc Desc In Focus July 23, 2024 Will CrowdStrike serve as a reboot on tech resiliency? 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 May 5, 2023 Creating a resilient cybersecurity strategy: The governance lifecycle approach 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 April 19, 2024 Six Reasons to Reconsider Cost Optimisation 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 The importance of dark web monitoring 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 Why Data Governance Programmes Are Easy to Envision, Difficult to Sustain 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 Building a ‘metaverse for good’ requires an ethical foundation 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 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… Client Story September 13, 2023 Agility in Action: IT Transformation Fosters Business Alignment This project focused on the company’s efforts to modernise its IT organisation and achieve greater alignment with its business partners as their business model evolved. The project included three key phases of support, starting with an initial IT strategy and target operating model definition, transitioning to enabling value stream-focused Lean portfolio management and then a deeper dive… Survey October 28, 2025 Bridging the GENERATIONAL AI GAP: Unlocking productivity for all generations Download Protiviti and LSE’s Generations Survey 2025 to explore how AI, Gen AI, and diverse teams are redefining productivity and leadership. Newsletter December 9, 2025 Private Equity Insights Q4 2025 Private equity firms stand at a pivotal moment. The convergence of governance reform, finance transformation, AI disruption, and cyber threats demands a new playbook. Load More