Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Newsletter June 12, 2024 21st-Century Board Oversight of Talent Acute talent shortages across numerous industries underscore the risks emanating from outdated, reactionary approaches to managing people, succession and culture. The question arises, what is the board’s role in forging a 21st-century approach to managing talent?Changing times have led to fleeting employee loyalty, as talented individuals have more options than ever before with greater… Client Story June 16, 2023 Global Leader in Design Software Hardens Its Platform Infrastructure to Meet FedRamp Compliance Requirements This global leader in software for designers, builders, engineers and others has worked to provide a solid platform across a multitude of industries. However, recent changes in FedRamp compliance requirements drove them to develop a new instance of its product platform, hardening their infrastructure for customers in the public sector. Whitepaper April 9, 2025 Third-Party Resilience: Increasing Transparency The threats faced by financial institutions are vast, multi-faceted and constantly evolving. The industry has responded in kind, in part by investing in resilience capabilities that enhance their ability to recover from destructive attacks, including attacks that may lead to data loss or critical system unavailability. Newsletter November 14, 2021 Determining the Digital Investment Question in the Boardroom In the third decade of the 21st century, smart companies and boards across all industries recognise that the pace of technological change continues to unfold at warp speed. The question in the boardroom a decade ago — “Should we invest in digital transformation?” — has transitioned to a different question today: “How much should we invest and, more important, how fast should we invest, given our… Whitepaper August 1, 2022 Protecting the Enterprise: How a Well-Designed Security Analytics Programme Can Help The purpose of security analytics in an organisation Security metrics and the analysis of security information can be challenging concepts even for leading organisations. As information security professionals, most of us have been taught that in order to have a mature information security function we must both document and measure the organisation’s security capabilities. If policies are the… Newsletter May 13, 2021 Quantum Computing: Why The Board Should Care There is a growing interest across the world in the feasibility of quantum computing and when it will finally become a reality in business. And that’s for good reason. Quantum would enable problem-solving capabilities to address simulations and complicated optimisation questions involving a formidable number of variables and potential outcomes at amazing speeds not attainable with conventional… Newsletter May 8, 2024 Sharpening the Board’s Focus on M&A Due Diligence Whether an acquisition is a stand-alone, complementary entity or an integration, the due diligence process is undergoing a paradigm shift due to the higher cost of funding and the impact of failed transactions. Boards should expect a more aggressive focus on due diligence.How has the due diligence process changed in recent years? For sure, the complexity of certain topics, such as environmental… Survey January 7, 2022 Three Conversation Starters That Advance CISO/CFO Collaboration The quality and, in some cases, the existence of the CISO/CFO relationship varies by company. In organisations where the CISO role is positioned and promoted as a source of value, CISOs and CFOs tend to collaborate more often and more meaningfully than in companies that treat information security as a cost center (and typically struggle with cybersecurity as a result). Protiviti’s 2021… Survey April 17, 2025 Financial services risk insights Consistent with past surveys, the results of the financial services industry (FSI) reflect a higher level of concern about the risk environment than the general population of survey respondents. What is noteworthy this year is that the deviation between the risk ratings of the general population and FSI is significantly higher than in the past. Newsletter March 14, 2024 Why Boards Should Care More About Geopolitics Than Ever Before Geopolitical risk seems higher than at any point in recent memory. Managing this risk effectively should be a core competency for all businesses — and the board should lead the way.After decades of globalisation shaping the world order, businesses are now forced to accept a new reality. Geopolitical risk is an ever-growing threat with far-reaching potential consequences. This risk arises from a… Load More