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July 17, 2026
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Third-Party Exit Planning: Prepare for the Worst, Plan for Control

Exit planning has become a critical element of the third-party risk management lifecycle as organisations contend with a rapidly evolving threat landscape and increasingly disruptive events. Protiviti’s 2026 Executive Perspectives on Top Risks and Opportunities survey ranks third-party risk as the second-highest near-term global risk.
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3 Steps to Understanding IAM Challenges in Securing the DevSecOps Ecosystem
April 6, 2023
DevSecOps is an organisational software engineering culture and practice that aims at unifying software development (Dev), application security (Sec), and operations (Ops). The main characteristic of DevSecOps is to monitor and apply security at all phases of the software lifecycle: Planning, development, integration, delivery, deployment and production. Looking at DevSecOps through an IT professional’s lens, the…
Why Retailers are Leveraging a Composable ERP Strategy
April 6, 2023
This blog post was authored by Chris Hanson - Director, Danielle Baumann - Senior Manager, Enterprise Application Solutions on The Technology Insights Blog. As more and more retailers build strategies to address supply chain challenges, customer experience and ease of doing business, many have come to the realisation that there may not be a single best solution for their various needs. This, coupled with…
How SAP Central Finance Benefits Manufacturers
April 6, 2023
This blog post was authored by Sheeraz Iqbal, Director, Enterprise Application Solutions on The Sap Insights Blog. Manufacturers often have heterogenous systems to accommodate different processes in a manufacturing cycle. From procurement and inventory management to calculating overhead, these systems carry critical financial data and information that are necessary to determine profitability, establish…
Migrating Security from Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management
April 6, 2023
This blog post was authored by Julia Artzi - Consultant, Sarah Guthrie - Senior Consultant, Enterprise Application Solutions on The Technology Insights Blog.Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management (D365 F&SCM) publishes security changes with new code releases. These changes are automatically applied to out-of-the-box security roles, duties and privileges…
Modernising applications: The importance of reducing technical debt
April 4, 2023
Technical debt is no longer just a “technical” problem. As recent, widely publicised events have shown, it is a business problem that can have serious consequences for organisations. The government and Congress are taking notice of unfair consumer experiences, and it is crucial for businesses to address their technical debt and minimise the risk of negative press, government fines and damaged reputations.
Digitising Experiences (Customer & Employee) Creates Value for Energy and Utilities Firms
April 3, 2023
Leaders of energy and utilities (E&U) businesses are becoming increasingly focused on the business impacts of rapidly evolving technology. According to Protiviti’s latest Executive Perspectives on Top Risks Survey, many of these leaders see their companies struggling over the next decade to adopt digital technologies effectively, use data analytics and “big data” to drive competitive advantage, and keep…
China’s all-in approach to the metaverse could spell trouble for U.S. tech supremacy
March 10, 2023
China is poised, and perhaps more determined than ever, to make the metaverse central to its economy in the future. China wants to expand the VR industry output to 350 billion yuan (U.S. $48 billion) by 2026 — six times the level of 2021 — showing it aims to become a world leader in the emerging metaverse economy.
Process Mining
March 10, 2023
AI Learning To Reconstruct How Your Business Processes Actually Perform Process Mining uses AI and machine learning to extract existing data from an organisation’s IT systems to visually reconstruct how processes actually perform. The data shows what is actually happening and creates a complete process map, capturing the “core” process flow and every variant to the core process flow. It identifies areas of…
Sustainable Cloud Computing
February 9, 2023
Organisations have grown more productive by embracing the scalability and performance of cloud computing. As they’ve become more sensitive to matters of sustainability, however, organisations will place greater focus on the sustainability of cloud computing models from an overall environmental, social and governance (ESG) standpoint. This is true globally, whether ESG goals are driven by regulations, stakeholder…
Protiviti-Oxford Global Executive Outlook on the Future of ESG: Key Findings
January 31, 2023
A global survey conducted by University of Oxford and Protiviti in the second quarter of 2022 reveals that business leaders worldwide agree ESG (environmental, social and governance) will be either extremely or somewhat important to their business success over the next decade. Executives were evenly split—50/50—on whether ESG would be “extremely important” or “somewhat important” to their business in 2032. No…
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