To further inform organizations on the benefits of enterprise risk management, the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) has published new guidance, ‘Creating and Protecting Value: Understanding and Implementing Enterprise Risk Management’
For the first time, cyber incidents rank as the most important business risk globally in the Allianz Risk Barometer, relegating perennial top peril business interruption (BI) to second place.
Findings from the recently conducted ‘Executive Perspectives on Top Risks 2020’ have been published by global consulting firm Protiviti and North Carolina State University Poole College of Management’s Enterprise Risk Management Initiative.
Addressing data privacy and protection risks starts with system design and engineering. Nehal Maniar looks at four steps that need to be taken whilst attempting to marry system optimisation and data protection.
Based on their experience during 2019 and their informed reading of the coming year, the members of ContinuitySA’s executive committee have identified the following risks as particularly relevant to the Africa region in 2020...
‘Directors and Officers Insurance Insights 2020’, a new report by insurer Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) highlights mega trends related to litigation which may have significant risk implications for senior management in 2020 and beyond.
Severe environmental threats account for the top long term risks identified in the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2020, while risks associated with economic and political polarization are expected to top the risk league table in 2020.
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) came into force on January 1st 2020 and requires impacted organizations to take various compliance measures to avoid potentially large fines.One of the key steps that organizations can take to manage the associated risks is to implement an holistic approach to encryption:
Of more than 1,590 C-suite and other executives polled by Deloitte, 39.4 percent report that the greatest benefit of using cognitive risk sensing is the early detection of emerging risks and potential threats.
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Business continuity can be defined as 'the processes, procedures, decisions and activities to ensure that an organization can continue to function through an operational interruption'. Read more about the basics of business continuity here.
