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  • Newsletter

    September 2, 2024
    Dealing with regulatory change and uncertainty continuously ranks among the top risks identified by board members and C-suite executives across the globe. Some believe that recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions will increase this risk for companies doing business in the United States, while others applaud the Court’s actions. What is happening, and what does this mean for boards and their companies?
  • Newsletter

    August 14, 2020
    A year ago, the Business Roundtable (BRT) released its “Purpose of a Corporation” [1] statement expressing a “fundamental commitment” to deliver value to all company stakeholders. Today, as the economy emerges from a terrible pandemic, does this statement matter to directors? The BRT’s statement in which 181 chief executives of prominent American companies committed to deliver value to…
  • Flash Report

    March 16, 2022
    Last month, Protiviti issued two Flash Reports on the crisis in Ukraine. The first[1] addressed Vladimir Putin’s recognition of two Ukrainian regions as “independent people’s republics,” deployment of “peacekeeping forces,” and demands that Ukraine disarm and negotiate the sovereignty of the two separatist regions; the West’s initial wave of sanctions as a proportionate response to Putin’s…
  • Flash Report

    November 15, 2022
    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…
  • Whitepaper

    June 10, 2022
    How big is Big Tech? There is little doubt that the big five technology companies (i.e., Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Facebook) are operating in a completely different stratosphere. As one recent New York Times blog described it, “America’s tech titans have formed a separate universe in which they are the sun, and everyone else — billions of humans, other companies, entire countries and…
  • In Focus

    July 9, 2024
    Over the course of a few days before the end of its summer session, the U.S. Supreme Court issued three decisions that reshaped the regulatory landscape in the United States. Two of the decisions  (SEC v. Jarkesy and Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo) shift the balance of power from the executive to the judicial branch of government and the third (Corner Post, Inc. v. Board of Governors)…
  • Podcast

    September 18, 2024
    Imagine a mesh network of AI-powered nodes that could validate the security of your organisation’s systems and applications. It’s a clever use of blockchain to add security to real-world devices, and, best of all, it will feature post-quantum cryptography. How soon will this technology simplify security for businesses and governments worldwide? And might this kind of approach even prevent killer…
  • Podcast

    July 24, 2024
    The migration to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) is about to begin and is necessary to protect against the threats of fault-tolerant quantum computing. However, critical assets like those in military, banking, and government environments also require other layers of security and strategies such as zero trust and increased encryption bit sizes. Join host Konstantinos Karagiannis as he discusses a…
  • In Focus

    July 23, 2024
    Global IT systems are still in reboot and recovery after a software update by cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike caused a massive worldwide outage of Windows computers. Global businesses, governments and organisations were impacted across several industries, including airlines, banks, telecommunications, and healthcare. While the dust settles on the specifics of the how and the why of the global…
  • Newsletter

    February 12, 2021
    Concern about the impact of government policies and regulations in response to COVID-19 is the No. 1 risk identified by directors and business executives across many industries. This insight is from our most recent top risk survey. Another survey we conducted last year, focused on technology risks, shows a deepening concern over cybersecurity and privacy issues, as well as regulatory compliance…
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