Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by Relevance Date Order Asc Desc Research Guide March 7, 2025 Guide to Public Company Transformation: Frequently Asked Questions Initial public offerings (IPOs) often generate a great deal of excitement and can give new luster to company brands. It is easy to forget that IPOs can only thrive in the right business climate – and for organizations that have undertaken the business transformation necessary to reach this stage.As this Guide to Public Company Transformation makes clear, preparing to become a public company is… Survey April 17, 2025 Healthcare risk insights As healthcare leaders assessed the challenges and risks facing their organisations in the short term, managing cyber threats, rising labour costs, and third-party risks were reported as their top concerns. Other issues that rank in the top ten include workforce challenges, such as talent and labour availability and the ability to attract and retain top talent, heightened regulatory change,… Survey April 17, 2025 Risk insights for operations teams The top near-term and long-term risk concerns of chief operating officers (COOs) include rising labour costs, uncertain economic conditions, talent and labour availability, regulatory uncertainty, the rapid speed of disruptive innovations, and the long-term supply of skills needed to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and other advanced technologies. These risk perspectives align with the top… In Focus November 4, 2024 New York DFS, White House issue guidance on AI‘s impact. What are the implications? During National Cybersecurity Month in October, both the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) and the Biden administration issued releases on the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence (AI). The DFS’s Industry Letter focuses on the impact of AI on the cybersecurity landscape while the Biden administration released the first-ever National Security Memorandum (NSM) on… Survey April 17, 2025 Higher education risk insights The higher education sector is contending with significant challenges. Rapid regulatory changes and declining enrolments due to demographic shifts and competition are creating uncertainty. The need for technological integration, increased governmental scrutiny on institutional practises, and financial instability due to tuition discounting are further complicating the landscape. Additionally,… Podcast July 24, 2024 Podcast | Zero-Trust Post-Quantum Cryptography — with XSOC The migration to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) is about to begin and is necessary to protect against the threats of fault-tolerant quantum computing. However, critical assets like those in military, banking, and government environments also require other layers of security and strategies such as zero trust and increased encryption bit sizes. Join host Konstantinos Karagiannis as he discusses a… Podcast October 16, 2024 Podcast | DARPA’s Quantum Proving Ground — with University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Quantum information science deals with the world of the very small, sure, but imagine 128 acres of land devoted to advancing QIS. Now imagine this mega complex in a major city! The Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park is expected to draw leading companies and researchers to Chicago, and DARPA is already playing a significant role. Find out what this will mean for advancing the industry and… Survey April 17, 2025 Risk insights for finance teams If the first few months of 2025 are any indication, navigating risk-strewn near-term and long-term risk environments will be difficult. In this regard, the chief financial officers (CFOs) broad exposure to macroeconomic and strategic risks as well as finance-focused operational challenges is valuable. As finance leaders develop and update strategic roadmaps amid global uncertainty, it is helpful… Whitepaper December 17, 2024 Application of Natural Language Processing in The Context of Internal Audit Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a subdiscipline of artificial intelligence technologies at the intersection of linguistics and computer science. It encompasses a range of computational methods for analyzing and representing naturally occurring texts in a linguistic analysis to recreate human-like processing of various tasks and applications [1]. NLP can therefore be described as a machine’s… Survey April 17, 2025 Private equity risk insights According to findings from Protiviti’s latest Top Risks survey, executives and board members from PE firms and their portfolio companies are facing several complex and interconnected risks — operational, macroeconomic and strategic — that could derail their value-creation efforts. In addition to economic-related worries, cyber threats rank as a top risk issue for this industry group, and with… Load More