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By Gordon Tucker, Managing Director - Global Leader, Technology, Media and Telecommunications Industry Practice, Protiviti 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…

By Curt Dalton, Managing Director - Global Leader, Security and Privacy practice, Protiviti 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…

According to a press release by the Hong Kong government, Hong Kong is set to receive an overall rating of “Compliant” in what will be its Fourth Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Mutual Evaluation. The Mutual Evaluation Report (MER) is scheduled to be released in September 2019. The expected rating represents a significant improvement over the Partially Compliant rating assigned to Hong Kong on a number…

Robotic process automation (RPA) is one of the fastest-growing technologies in the workplace today. Introduced as a fast and efficient virtual workforce capable of laboring around the clock with little configuration or training, bots were initially cost-justified through headcount reduction. However, the reality is much different than that initial sales pitch. For one thing, while bots do function right out of…