Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Whitepaper April 24, 2024 Sanctions Risk Assessment: A Key Risk Management Tool Faced with the growing complexity of the geopolitical landscape, governments have been using financial sanctions increasingly as foreign policy tools to respond to developments as wide ranging as regional conflicts and wars, terrorism, and human slavery. In today’s highly charged geopolitical environment, sanctions compliance is a focus not only for financial institutions and regulatory… Survey April 17, 2025 Risk insights for operations teams The top near-term and long-term risk concerns of chief operating officers (COOs) include rising labor costs, uncertain economic conditions, talent and labor availability, regulatory uncertainty, the rapid speed of disruptive innovations, and the long-term supply of skills needed to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and other advanced technologies. These risk perspectives align with the top… Newsletter October 9, 2024 Board Risk Reporting in Disruptive Times Risk reporting to the board may not be fit for purpose in these uncertain times. Directors are trending toward expecting more dialogue, engagement and forward-looking insights based on relevant data and information. A principled approach would help.Boards and their companies face a constant and seemingly unending state of flux in the marketplace. Emergence of the unexpected is the norm. For… Flash Report December 13, 2023 EU Lawmakers Reach Agreement on AI Act, Creating Regulatory Framework Addressing Risks of AI On December 8th, after two and a half years of negotiation, the Council of the EU and the EU Parliament finally reached a provisional agreement on the EU AI Act, which was first proposed by the European Commission in 2021. The agreement creates legislation that introduces harmonized rules and definitions for those using AI systems and putting those systems into service and bans certain types of… Client Story February 16, 2023 Protiviti helps global energy conglomerate complete a complex integration of an E&P target Rising energy prices and the resulting profitability typically generate a flurry of merger and acquisition activity in the oil and gas sector. The deals frequently target organizations that are independent and entrepreneurial in spirit — companies that have amassed a significant but often underdeveloped asset base and whose processes generally have not kept up with the growth of the company. The… Insights paper September 3, 2025 Old systems, new threats: 10 reasons to modernize your tech now In today’s digital-first economy, technology is more than a business enabler — it’s a strategic differentiator. Organizations that leverage modern platforms gain agility, resilience, and the ability to scale innovation. Yet many enterprises still depend on legacy systems, outdated architectures that were once foundational but have since become liabilities.These systems, often stitched together… Whitepaper July 14, 2025 Navigating the Financial Services Industry’s Compliance Priorities in 2025: Mid-Year Checkpoint When we published our 2025 compliance priorities for financial services companies last December, we acknowledged that for a variety of reasons, understanding and managing compliance risks this year would be a true test of the industry’s commitment and acumen. Among factors adding to the challenge this year, we noted the rapid pace of technological advancement, geopolitical tensions, and diverging… Podcast May 14, 2025 Podcast | Moving Companies to PQC VPN — with American Binary Post-quantum cryptography is rapidly moving from the realm of NIST standards to running in production. The threat of quantum computing advances and coming regulations are driving this acceleration. One major component on the PQC migration plan for companies is VPN. In this episode we look at the Ambit corporate VPN client, which uses a standardized NIST PQC cipher: ML-KEM. Did you know there are… Whitepaper May 28, 2024 DORA Compliance: Untangling Key Hurdles to Implementation The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), or more formally known as Regulation (EU) 2022/2554, took effect on 16 January 2023, with final industry compliance required by 17 January 2025. The regulation underscores the importance of digital operational resilience in today’s increasingly interconnected and digitized landscape and seeks to expand the reach of European regulators incorporating… In Focus November 4, 2024 New York DFS, White House issue guidance on AI‘s impact. What are the implications? During National Cybersecurity Month in October, both the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) and the Biden administration issued releases on the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence (AI). The DFS’s Industry Letter focuses on the impact of AI on the cybersecurity landscape while the Biden administration released the first-ever National Security Memorandum (NSM) on… Load More
