Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Survey April 17, 2025 Insurance risk insights According to findings from Protiviti’s latest Top Risks survey, results from the insurance industry reflect a higher level of concern about the risk environment than the general population of survey respondents. But insurers’ concern levels dropped significantly from previous years’ surveys. Where the top concern last year earned a 6.42 score from insurance respondents, this year’s score was just… Podcast March 5, 2025 Podcast | Error Correction Breakthrough (20X Boost) — with Photonic Quantum computing needs low-overhead error correction to truly scale. Building thousands of qubits to end up with a couple of useful logical ones feels like a bad strategy. Photonic recently published a paper describing a new type of error correction code that promises a 20X reduction in the number of qubits needed to run quantum algorithms that solve real business problems. Are these so-called… Podcast March 19, 2025 Podcast | PQC-Powered Corporate Messaging with NetSfere Migrating to post-quantum cryptography across an organisation will take time. But while you are replacing every cipher to defend against the threat side of quantum computing, you may also want to add systems that bring new functionality and come with PQC out of the gate. Imagine a mobile messaging app like WhatsApp, but with NIST-approved ML-KEM under the hood and enterprise-grade controls. From… Flash Report November 9, 2021 The Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill: Who Wins, Who Doesn’t? It's finally here - a historic spending package from the U.S. federal government amounting to more than $1 trillion in infrastructure investments. The question now becomes: What's next? In May 2021, President Joe Biden, following through on a campaign promise, outlined a $2.3 trillion plan[1] to re-engineer the nation’s infrastructure. After weeks of negotiations over the spring and summer… Survey March 9, 2023 Achieving Audit Relevance As internal audit functions face a continuing talent crunch and demands to support the organisation’s strategic moves in response to external events, chief audit executives (CAEs) are focused on growing internal audit’s relevance with the board, senior executives and other stakeholders. For internal audit functions, elevating their relevance requires ongoing evolution and a committed focus on… Survey January 10, 2024 Executive Perspectives on Top Risks - Private Equity Risk landscape is shifting for private equity firms and portfolio companiesWhile the top 2024 and 2034 risk concerns of executives and board members from private equity (PE) firms and their portfolio companies track closely with the risk priorities identified by leaders globally in other industry sectors, the volatility that roiled the PE market in 2023 is evident in how leaders in the industry… Flash Report March 16, 2022 The War in Ukraine Rages On: The Energy Fallout Last month, Protiviti issued two Flash Reports on the crisis in Ukraine. The first[1] addressed Vladimir Putin’s recognition of two Ukrainian regions as “independent people’s republics,” deployment of “peacekeeping forces,” and demands that Ukraine disarm and negotiate the sovereignty of the two separatist regions; the West’s initial wave of sanctions as a proportionate response to Putin’s… Podcast Transcript August 20, 2020 Transcript-Embracing the Next Generation of Internal Auditing It’s time for internal audit leaders and professionals to stand up and ride their own wave of transformation and innovation. But the results of the latest Next-Generation Internal Audit survey from Protiviti show that much progress still needs to be made in growing competency levels and next-generation auditing methodologies, in advancing innovation and transformation initiatives, and in… Newsletter June 18, 2021 The Future Workplace: Getting It Right The world of work was changing well before the pandemic. Technology is significantly affecting work, jobs, wages and society at large — and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. It is impacting how companies design and manage a diverse talent, workforce and technological ecosystem that includes on-demand resources (contractors, part-time and “gig economy” workers) and “digital labor… Whitepaper April 23, 2020 Reemergence Planning – A Sound Strategy After a Crisis In September 2001, Wired magazine reviewed science writer Steven Johnson's then-new book, Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software. Johnson’s premise: Brilliant adaptations arise out of interconnections and cooperation among individual components of complex systems. He optimistically predicted that we would develop technology tools that have humans “collaborating on a… Load More
