Results for Search Submit Filter by: Advanced Filter All results Solutions Industry People Client Story Insights/Blogs Filter Newsletter August 15, 2022 Improving Board Performance in Disruptive Times The 2020s are well on their way to earning the ominous label of a troubling, disruptive decade, but there remain viable opportunities amid the challenges. What is the board’s role in preparing the organisation for “show-stopping” and potentially existential risks? The Story: A global board survey conducted by McKinsey of approximately 1,500 corporate directors found that directors “are not… Newsletter September 28, 2022 Identifying and managing the critical risks of third-party providers Outsourcing und andere Beziehungen zu Drittanbietern können Finanzinstituten zahlreiche Vorteile bringen wie z. B. eine höhere betriebliche Belastbarkeit, schnellere und besser zugeschnittene Finanzprodukte und -dienstleistungen, Kostensenkungen, größere Innovationen sowie verbesserte interne Prozesse. Podcast August 13, 2022 Podcast | Focusing on ESG Planning and Strategy Nachhaltigkeit / ESG gewinnt weltweit an Relevanz und gilt heute als eine der Prioritäten für viele Unternehmen. Das ESG-Programm und dazugehörige Aktivitäten benötigen Strategie und Planung, denn Nachhaltigkeit kann nicht als ein Nebenthema angegangen werden. In dieser Folge von Board Perspectives sind Ellen Holder und Britta Sadoun von Protiviti unsere Gäste. Sie sprechen über die… Podcast September 28, 2022 Podcast | Sustainable Finance Im Zuge der Dominanz von ESG als zentralem Punkt auf der Agenda von Vorständen ist die nachhaltige Finanzierung ein beachtenswertes Thema. Diese stellt sicher, dass Investitionen in Produkte und Dienstleistungen mit ESG- und Nachhaltigkeitsstandards übereinstimmen. Blog July 19, 2018 A Look at Full Meltdown: A Vulnerability Created by Patching Spectre and Meltdown The introduction of the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities produced patches from big-name vendors such as Intel, AMD and Microsoft. These vulnerabilities allowed memory leakage due to the exploitation of the CPU’s speculative execution. A Swedish security researcher, Ulf Frisk, discovered that the January and February Microsoft Security patches mitigated Meltdown but produced a new threat: The… Newsletter May 16, 2022 Three Keys for CEOs: Relevance, Culture and Alignment A recent Protiviti global survey indicates varying views across different executive groups about the overall risk environment. CEOs rate the relative riskiness of the business environment higher for 2022 than anyone else, jumping from the lowest rating in 2021 to the highest rating in 2022. Also, the number of risks that CEOs noted would have a “significant impact on their business”… Whitepaper August 1, 2022 Protecting the Enterprise: How a Well-Designed Security Analytics Programme Can Help The purpose of security analytics in an organisationSecurity 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… Whitepaper August 1, 2022 Sanctions enforcement: A new era U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco has called sanctions “the new FCPA.” [1] The EU has issued a proposal that would make sanctions evasion an EU crime [2] . The U.K.’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) is under pressure from key global partners to step up its enforcement activity [3]. These developments are just a few of the signs that the national… Blog June 14, 2018 3 Ds to Compliance and Beyond with the New Lease Accounting Standards The clock is ticking as organizations get set to meet the requirements of new lease accounting standards. Issued in February 2016, FASB Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) Topic 842 requires lessees to report assets and liabilities related to leases of one year or more on the balance sheet. The new lease standard takes effect starting December 2018 for public companies and a year later for… Podcast July 4, 2022 Podcast | The Board’s Role in Building a Culture of Sustainability Corporate culture, once a rather squishy, hard-to-define concept for organisations, increasingly is a top-of-mind concern for leaders looking to create a desirable workplace for innovation and one where employees who have many choices want to remain long-term. The challenges are especially acute amid the current war for talent and the need to attract and retain the best people. And part of… Load More