Results for Search Submit Filter by: Advanced Filter All results Solutions Industry People Client Story Insights/Blogs Filter Blog May 7, 2020 Managing and Mitigating Credit Risks and Losses Through the Crisis and Beyond Many financial institutions have moved quickly to operationalize changes needed to address the near-term and longer-term impacts of the COVID-19 global pandemic. In a recent webinar conducted by Protiviti, credit risk management and mitigation techniques were explored in depth. More than 1,100 people attended, and many of them shared their most pressing concerns and views through polling… Blog May 8, 2020 A Finance Labor Model Tailor-Made for Navigating Crises What happens to a business that is heavily reliant on its finance operations located in a foreign country, and it discovers that a government response to a global pandemic has sent the members of that team to shelter at home, cutting it off from access to the office with little or no warning? Clearly, that’s not a theoretical question today. It is what happened in the past weeks to dozens of… Blog February 25, 2020 Economic Conditions, Digital Adoption and Talent Shortage Headline the Top Risks List for Tech Companies in 2020 Technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) organizations around the globe entered 2020 feeling uncertain about their prospects for business growth in the year ahead. The potential for a downturn, which increases every day after the long streak of economic growth we’ve experienced, is one factor fueling that worry. So, too, are ongoing changes in tariff and trade policies. This is not a… Blog February 27, 2020 Assembling a New Labor Model in the Manufacturing Industry: Four Innovations to Consider Manufacturing organizations have to find innovative ways to tackle a game-changing skills shortage if they intend to thrive in the new decade. For the past two years, leaders of manufacturing companies around the globe have expressed a growing concern about their organizations’ inability to get skilled, in-demand talent. In our latest Executive Perspectives on Top Risks survey, conducted by… Blog February 28, 2020 Risk Realities and Enterprise Risk Management in 2020 Uncertainty and opportunity are two familiar bywords of the digital age. An ever-changing and disruptive marketplace provides an abundance of opportunities, but it also creates proliferating risks which can upend any organization whether it chooses to pursue those opportunities or not. And that is what’s especially fascinating about the digital age: There is risk to taking decisive action to… Blog March 2, 2020 Yes, That Information Is at Risk: Pressure Rising for Oil and Gas Companies to Protect Data Oil and gas companies collect, work with and store a wide range of sensitive business data in the course of everyday business. However, they don’t always consider just how much malicious hackers, company insiders, nation-states and other bad actors value that data. As a result, they don’t prioritize developing a data protection program or create one that is comprehensive enough. Depending on… Blog March 3, 2020 Moving Finance to the Cloud: What Finance Leaders Need to Know As cloud technology matures, an increasing number of companies are migrating financial functions away from on-premise systems. In our most recent Finance Trends survey, more than half (58%) of the respondents said that they plan to increase their spending on cloud applications in 2020 — indicating that they either have already migrated and or are planning to do so this year. The movement of… Blog March 4, 2020 Major Security Vulnerabilities Could Expose Thousands of IoT Devices to Cyberattacks (Flash Report) IoT Vulnerabilities on the Rise A recently discovered set of Bluetooth-related vulnerabilities could mean thousands of IoT devices are vulnerable to attack and could experience deadlocks, crashes, buffer overflows and bypass of certain security settings. Researchers at the Singapore University of Technology and Design uncovered a set of 12 vulnerabilities affecting seven major system-on-a-chip… Blog March 10, 2020 Further Measures From the Bank of England to Support LIBOR Transition In what has become a steady stream of advisories from regulators globally about the financial institution’s preparedness for LIBOR transition, the Bank of England (the Bank), on February 26, announced further measures designed to “turbo-charge sterling LIBOR transition” in a speech by Andrew Hauser, Executive Director of Markets at the Bank. The Bank recognises the progress made in 2019,… Blog March 12, 2020 The Future of Privacy Regulations: Coping With a Complex and Evolving Landscape Data privacy regulations are in flux, not only at the state and national level, but globally. Even as companies put the finishing touches on extensive preparations to comply with the European Union’s landmark GDPR law, new laws were introduced in the U.S. states of California, Vermont, Nevada, and Maine. While new laws are being passed, those in effect are already being amended. There is… Load More
