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Ransomware attacks have been around for many years. In the past, cyber-threat actors would penetrate a company’s computer and network systems and obtain data with the objective of returning it upon payment. The demanded payments were usually smaller than the ransoms requested in recent incidents. Most of these incidents weren’t financially material, nor were they reported publicly.
By contrast,…
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Customers are major drivers of change in the marketplace. In times of stress, how well companies manage customer experience and expectation can determine whether they succeed. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, amid demand spikes and panic buying of household items like groceries and cleaning products, companies that successfully addressed customers’ demands (e.g., restocked alternative…
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Kimberly Dickerson, Executive Vice President - Global Head of Operations and Technology at Protiviti, speaks with Star McDade, Senior Vice President, Audit Services - Staff Agencies, Analytics & Insurance (SA&I) at USAA, about confronting stereotypes by demonstrating the positive influence of risk and assurance professionals, overcoming the challenges in the transformation of auditing…
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For banks, sanctions-related enforcement actions and large financial penalties over many years have made clear the cost of non-compliance with sanctions obligations. For other types of financial services companies as well as for non-financial companies, the lessons learned are more recent. And the risks for many companies are increasing.
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Quantum Dawn VII is the latest iteration of SIFMA's biannual cybersecurity exercise focused on the outage of a critical third-party service provider (CTP). The simulation and concluding survey found many financial institutions are already experienced with the loss of CTPs, with protocols established for managing the outage. With such outages increasingly commonplace and regulators holding firms…
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Dive into the world of women in risk management. In this Risky Women podcast, Jenny Wong & Gayle Lacey discuss risk management challenges & opportunities.
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In this episode of Protiviti's Risky Women podcast series, Ghislaine Entwisle, Managing Director of the Australia Technology Consulting and Business Performance Improvement practice, speaks with Gloria Yuen, Head of Regulatory Enablement and Delivery at National Australia Bank.
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Protiviti and NC State University’s ERM Initiative have been conducting our Top Risks Survey for the past 12 years. This journey began just as financial markets around the world were starting their long, slow recovery from the global financial crisis, and has since covered the worst global pandemic in 100 years as well as near record-low interest rates followed shortly by the fastest rate hiking…
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For two years running, Protiviti has published a paper on the major sanction developments in the past year and our expectations for the coming year. We did this, in part, because the pace, scale and enforcement of economic sanctions reached unprecedented levels after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. We now seem to have settled into an environment where world events and geopolitical…
