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  • Insights paper

    June 5, 2025
    In 2023, a prominent global technology firm experienced a significant security breach when sensitive production data was inadvertently restored in a development environment. This misconfiguration led to the exposure of credentials and customer data, underscoring the persistent challenges even the most advanced tech companies face in securing cloud environments.
  • Podcast

    June 11, 2025
    Quantum computing and sensing are emerging markets, but they are already worth well over a billion dollars. How is growth looking? Some trends may surprise you, including a shift to on-prem quantum computers. Has AI really stolen quantum’s thunder, or is it about to synergistically help our industry and qubit counts grow? Join host Konstantinos Karagiannis for a wide-ranging chat with Celia…
  • Blogs

    April 16, 2024
    For probably the umpteenth time, we use the term ‘garbage in, garbage out’ when we summarise problems with data quality. It has indeed become a cliché. Various industry studies have uncovered the high cost of bad data, and it’s estimated that poor data quality costs organisations an average of $12 million yearly. Data teams waste 40% of their time troubleshooting data downtime, even at mature…
  • Insights paper

    October 6, 2023
    This paper is intended to prompt increased dialogue between financial institutions, trade associations and regulatory authorities on a rapidly evolving topic. It lays out a set of principles that could align regulators, the financial sector and all three lines of defense within an organisation to a cohesive view of resilience. A key objective of this paper is to highlight the challenges in…
  • Blogs

    May 17, 2024
    These turbulent times of evolving threats and rising personal responsibility considerations for cybersecurity leaders make the CISO role a challenging but rewarding position. The CISO must contend with an increasing sophistication of attacks, potential geopolitical adversaries and the material impact cybersecurity can have on organisational value. Whether it’s a new CISO or a seasoned…
  • Blogs

    July 31, 2023
    The most important use of any risk assessment tool is that it must contribute to better decision making on how to manage individual risks. Whether that is treating and reducing risk, or accepting that risk exists, risk management activities must ultimately help management make better decisions. Executives and risk management leaders, though, are increasingly faced with risk decisions they have…
  • Video

    December 21, 2024
    In the latest episode of Protiviti Legal Perspectives, host Chad Volkert, Global Solutions leader at Protiviti, sits down with Melissa Cohen, a managing director in Protiviti’s Legal Consulting practice, to explore the intricacies of managing internal fraud investigations and proactive risk management. With nearly two decades of experience in forensic accounting and financial investigations,…
  • Client Story

    August 19, 2025
    Microsoft’s tax department, which serves the many legal entities across this large global organisation, was at a pivotal moment. While it was effectively meeting the needs of those internal entities, the group recognised their processes were largely manual and particularly inefficient. The team wanted to transform itself to drive efficiencies, both within the department and across the larger…
  • Blogs

    July 4, 2023
    Business and IT leaders can articulate business cases for modernisation efforts by linking them to key value drivers that modernisation efforts are known to deliver. The strongest business cases cite multiple benefits, and it isn’t unusual for application modernisation projects to add value in three or more related categories of benefit. The modernisation drivers listed below are synergistic: it…
  • Survey

    April 17, 2025
    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…
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