Results for Search Submit Filter by: Advanced Filter All results Solutions Industry Typelist People Client Story Insights/Blogs Filter Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Blog February 3, 2020 The 2020 Audit Committee Agenda: Asking the Right Questions With accounting standards changing and regulatory scrutiny expanding beyond financial performance, 2020 offers an opportunity for audit committees to work on improving the broader risk and control environment, including non-financial — enterprise, process and technology — risk disclosures. As in years past, Protiviti has prepared a recommended agenda for audit committees to help focus their… Blog February 6, 2020 Insurers Targeted in UK Supervisory Authorities’ Latest Effort to Develop Formal Operational Resilience Regulations The resiliency of the insurance industry, especially its ability to protect policyholders from the impact of severe operational failures, is a major focus of the latest regulatory effort to strengthen the operational resilience of the UK’s financial services sector. When the Bank of England (BOE), the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) signaled… Blog February 11, 2020 Gender Diversity Can Aid Cybersecurity: CISO Panel Suggests Keys to Greater Female Participation It’s no secret that the current skills shortage is especially acute in the area of cybersecurity. A 2018 study by the International Information System Security Certification Consortium, or (ISC)², reported a shortage of nearly 3 million cybersecurity professionals globally, including a gap of roughly 500,000 trained staff in North America alone. And CIO/CTO respondents to Protiviti’s latest Top… Blog February 17, 2020 Succession Planning in Finance: Sourcing the Next Generation of Leaders According to Protiviti’s most recent Top Risks survey, succession planning is among leaders’ top concerns. At the same time, another survey conducted by Robert Half among chief financial officers (CFOs) only shows a startling 48% of them had not identified their own successors. Of those, 64% cited their own intentions to stay in their current positions as their rationale for not prioritizing… Blog February 18, 2020 Cybersecurity Trends in 2020: What to Expect and How to Prepare Cyber attacks continue to rank among the leading business concerns in 2020, according to the eighth annual Executive Perspectives on Top Risks, a joint survey by Protiviti and NC State University’s ERM Initiative. Drawing on responses from 1,063 board members and executives from around the world, the survey found that cyber threats represented a “significant impact risk” to senior managers, one… Blog February 19, 2020 Risks at the Intersection of Talent, Culture, Innovation and Technology Certain kinds of risks, if left unaddressed, inhibit organizations’ capacities to deliver on strategic targets. Particularly noteworthy are the crucial relationships between such risk areas as talent, culture, innovation and technology, which prompt further inquiry into how these areas intersect: What culture attracts top talent? What talent is needed to be agile, competitive, nimble and… Blog February 24, 2020 Innovating AML Compliance: The Next Regulatory Imperative? Incorporating innovative approaches into anti-money laundering (AML) and financial crime prevention remains a key agenda item for the financial services industry, trade associations, advocacy groups and, increasingly, the regulators. At the recent SIFMA AML conference, we joined industry panelists on stage to discuss not only the obvious benefits of integrating leading technologies into AML… Blog February 25, 2020 Economic Conditions, Digital Adoption and Talent Shortage Headline the Top Risks List for Tech Companies in 2020 Technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) organizations around the globe entered 2020 feeling uncertain about their prospects for business growth in the year ahead. The potential for a downturn, which increases every day after the long streak of economic growth we’ve experienced, is one factor fueling that worry. So, too, are ongoing changes in tariff and trade policies. This is not a… Blog February 27, 2020 Assembling a New Labor Model in the Manufacturing Industry: Four Innovations to Consider Manufacturing organizations have to find innovative ways to tackle a game-changing skills shortage if they intend to thrive in the new decade. For the past two years, leaders of manufacturing companies around the globe have expressed a growing concern about their organizations’ inability to get skilled, in-demand talent. In our latest Executive Perspectives on Top Risks survey, conducted by… Blog February 28, 2020 Risk Realities and Enterprise Risk Management in 2020 Uncertainty and opportunity are two familiar bywords of the digital age. An ever-changing and disruptive marketplace provides an abundance of opportunities, but it also creates proliferating risks which can upend any organization whether it chooses to pursue those opportunities or not. And that is what’s especially fascinating about the digital age: There is risk to taking decisive action to… Load More