Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by Relevance Date Order Asc Desc Whitepaper August 13, 2024 Sustainability regulation: ESG disclosures and demand for accountability set the tone for the future In recent years, increasing pressures from a variety of stakeholders have combined to drive companies toward more sustainable practices in their business operations and greater transparency. The real game-changer, however, has been the proliferation of recent global environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting regulations, which require a level of reporting far above the voluntary… Blogs April 12, 2023 Australia’s Privacy Act is fundamentally changing: What this means for your organisation Background On 16 February 2023, the Attorney-General’s Department released its Privacy Act Review Report (the Report) following a two-year review of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (the Act). The Report contains 116 recommended amendments to the existing Act to strengthen the protection of personal information and the control individuals have over their information. If accepted and adopted, the… Blogs April 26, 2023 COSO issues supplemental guidance on internal control over sustainability reporting – With examples Last Thursday, the Committee of Sponsoring Organisations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) released interpretive guidance on how to effectively apply the 2013 Internal Control — Integrated Framework (ICIF) — which is currently applied to financial reporting — to sustainability reporting. The guidance results from a project approved by the COSO… Insights paper December 22, 2025 Combating Ghost Students and Financial Aid Fraud in Higher Education: A Proactive Approach In recent years, higher education institutions have faced a growing challenge from financial aid fraud, particularly through the phenomenon of “ghost students” – fictitious or non-attending individuals enrolled to extract financial aid funds. This threat was exacerbated during the shift to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, which enabled fraudsters to exploit vulnerabilities in… Whitepaper December 23, 2025 Internal Audit Benchmarks Protiviti and the Association of Healthcare Internal Auditors (AHIA) partner to conduct an annual study examining internal audit functions across a wide range of healthcare provider, payer and integrated delivery systems. The results of the study, with 79 organisations participating this year, are split into a two-part publication. The first, Evolving Risk Landscape Refocuses Healthcare Audit… Podcast January 7, 2026 Podcast | 2026 Predictions and the Road to 40,000 Logical Qubits — with Photonic Let’s look to 2026 and recap a pivotal 2025 with Paul Terry, CEO of Photonic. Explore why the industry has officially moved past the era of noisy qubits into the race for fault-tolerant, "gold-standard" logical qubits. Paul joins host Konstantinos Karagiannis to break down Photonic’s selection for DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative Stage B and explains how their unique distributed… Survey January 22, 2026 From threats to transformation: The key risks and opportunities shaping government strategy Protiviti’s 2026 Top Risks Report for the government industry reveals how AI, cyber threats and workforce transformation are reshaping public-sector risk. Blogs February 23, 2026 From Gridlock to Governance: The Case for a High-Performing Architecture Review Board In brief:The cost of architectural non-governance: More than half of companies are spending more than a quarter of their technology budgets on remediation, much of it architectural. (link) This is money not spent on business enablement and alignment.AI is raising the stakes: The explosion of AI and other emerging technologies has dramatically increased the volume and complexity of architectural… Whitepaper October 8, 2025 Crypto Compliance in Focus: Regulatory Views Across the US, UK, EU and APAC The bases for the appeal of crypto assets vary across interested parties: potential for high returns, diversification, user control, anonymity, customer demand, low-cost global payment capability, and the oft-expressed FOMO (fear of missing out), among them. With a market cap as of mid-September 2025 of $4.22 trillion, crypto assets have experienced explosive growth over the last five to 10 years… Flash Report March 5, 2021 SEC Indicates Greater Interest in Climate Change Disclosures March 4, 2021 - On February 24, 2021, Allison Herren Lee, acting chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), issued a statement directing the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance to review climate-related disclosures in public company filings and determine the extent to which companies are addressing the topics identified in “Commission Guidance Regarding Disclosure Related to… Load More