Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Blogs July 14, 2023 A fresh take on cloud transformation Cloud transformation is a process of moving applications, data and infrastructure to the cloud. Such simple definitions lack any sense of the business drivers or anticipated benefits that transformation strategies ought to encompass. After undertaking a “transformation” according to these simpler definitions, businesses are left operating in the same old way, making use of the same applications… Podcast February 27, 2023 Risky Women Podcast | Top Compliance Priorities 2023 Kimberley Cole speaks with Carol Beaumier and Bernadine Reese from Protiviti. We’re thrilled that they are back again to talk about the top of mind compliance priorities for 2023.Carol Beaumier is a Senior Managing Director in Protiviti’s Risk and Compliance practice and oversees the firm’s Asia-Pac Financial Services Practice. Prior to joining Protiviti, Carol was a Partner with Arthur Andersen… Whitepaper August 20, 2021 Prepare for Changes as Biden Administration Sets Sight on ESG - Top of Mind Compliance Issues for 2021 It’s been fewer than two decades since the term ESG, or Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance, was coined in a landmark report commissioned by the United Nations. ESG has become a hot topic for politicians and regulators, as events like natural disasters and protests on racial and social inequity have led to public calls to action for fundamental changes to the way society interacts with… Blogs July 4, 2023 Top 10 reasons for technology modernisation 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… Blogs February 9, 2023 Sustainable Cloud Computing 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… Flash Report November 15, 2022 Biden Doubles Down at COP27 Last Friday at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (more commonly referred to as COP27), in Egypt, United States President Joe Biden asserted that global warming posed an existential threat to the planet and promised his country would meet its targets for fighting it. In his speech, he said, “The climate crisis is about human security,… Whitepaper December 7, 2020 Returning Internal Audit to 'Business as Usual' in a New World Eight Recommendations for Addressing the Impacts of COVID-19 on Financial Services Industry Audit Plans The COVID-19 pandemic continues to create untold havoc on individuals, businesses and economies throughout the world, with no clear end in sight. The financial services industry (FSI) has by no means been immune. An abundance of pandemic-related events, including the implementation of … Blogs September 10, 2021 Ransomware Crisis: 11 Actions to Avoid a Ransomware Attack Why Securing our Critical Infrastructure Matters Operational Technology (OT) remains a key, but vulnerable technology for organisations with critical infrastructure. The Australian Government has defined critical infrastructure as “those physical facilities, supply chains, information technologies and communication networks which, if destroyed, degraded or rendered unavailable for an extended… Blogs July 24, 2022 How to Build Effective FinOps Capabilities in Cloud Financial operations (FinOps) professionals around the world are generally unflappable, and they need to be. Moving finances to cloud, essentially transferring the spend from CapEx to OpEx, is proving to be a struggle. Organisations are seeing mixed success as they attempt to adopt new FinOps methodologies and are finding it difficult to control spend as development teams and engineers are… Blogs November 17, 2021 Enable Transformation, Manage Risk with a Cloud Control Framework 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… Load More