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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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The Decade Ahead : Working in Internal Audit
March 9, 2022
The internal audit function is the only function within any organisation which has the mandate to look across and examine all aspects of the businesses and its processes. It’s a very empowering position and it’s also very unique and compelling as a profession.  An internal auditor can gain insights into an organisation with a holistic view. The internal audit process requires one to assess the challenges for…
The CFO’s Gambit: A Multidimensional Strategic Role
March 4, 2022
On the three-dimensional chessboard of business, CFOs are expanding their roles in multiple directions at once. Finance leaders now shape and drive corporate strategy in areas ranging from advanced technology investments to organisational design, and from supply chain resilience to organisational culture. Simply stated, they are positioning themselves as players in the strategic dialogue in the C-suite and boardroom…
Enable Transformation, Manage Risk with a Cloud Control Framework
November 17, 2021
Businesses are experiencing increased agility and reliability – and cost reductions – through cloud transformation but adopting cloud solutions can result in new risks. Sometimes, they impede enterprise vision and regulatory compliance. Applying an appropriate framework to help manage the risk of cloud adoption can mitigate or even eliminate these hazards. In an earlier blog, we introduced the cloud control…
A Hacker’s View: Social Media Protections in an Increasingly Connected World
September 7, 2021
I’m a professional hacker, or as we are referred to in the security industry, a penetration tester. As a penetration tester, I am hired by organisations to attack their systems, networks, applications, and employees in the same fashion that a malicious attacker would. It is my job to find and exploit weaknesses before malicious attackers can. These weaknesses include application and network-based attacks (…
Returning to the Office with an Adaptable, High-Performance Team
August 9, 2021
The response to the pandemic from organisations can be classified into multiple phases. In the first phase, business leaders scrambled to equip teams for remote work. Later, ad hoc groups sprang up to devise return-to-office (RTO) plans. Soon after, many recognised they’d have to optimise tools and processes for remote collaboration that would last months longer than they had anticipated. And now, business leaders…
An Approach to Measuring the Value of Human Capital
August 5, 2021
Stakeholders have long believed that effective assessments of a company’s performance and prospects require solid information on workforce costs and productivity, on how employees are hired, developed and managed, and other human capital factors. Agencies, governing bodies and investors have recently exerted pressure on a number of authorities worldwide to ensure more human capital information is made available as a…
Human Capital Reporting in a Changing World
August 5, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic. A new administration in the U.S. with, so far, a markedly different tone than the previous one. The MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements. Environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting. It would be easy to attribute the emergence of human capital reporting requirement by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to a wave of accountability demands in a world rife with…
What Do Thriving Organisations Have in Common? Business Agility
July 20, 2021
The Digital Age is forcing businesses to seek new ways to avoid falling behind and better serve their customers. Business agility enables organisations to respond quickly to market changes and employee or customer demands without compromising quality. Traditional hierarchical siloed methods no longer work in this environment. Companies seeking speed, innovation and greater customer focus have prioritised working in…
Success from Scarcity: 5 Lessons in Frugal Innovation
July 16, 2021
In a culture of abundance, scarcity is often equated with adversity. But abundance can be a burden as well, leaving otherwise healthy companies unprepared to deal with extended periods of lack of resources. The global COVID-19 pandemic provided a wake-up call for many organisations in developed economies as they found themselves scrambling to adapt to resource constraints that are a way of life for companies in…
Don’t Bore the Board: 5 CISO Hacks for Highly Effective Presentations
June 17, 2021
Several years ago, we invited board members to speak candidly about presentations from company executives. Those free-flowing conversation more than lived up to what was billed as a “Don’t Bore the Board” panel discussion. The panel members’ engaging insights remain instructive to CISOs today as security leaders strive to hone their increasingly important board presentation approaches.One corporate director…
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