Economic issues dominate concerns for business executives around the world, according to the World Economic Forum’s ‘Regional Risks for Doing Business 2019’ report.
A recent survey for the 2019 Compliance and Procurement Sentiment report from Dun & Bradstreet found that 85 percent of respondents were confident about the effectiveness of risk management within their organization; 8 percent lower than the previous survey.
Amid a wider range of issues to handle, a majority of board members and senior executives responsible for their organization’s cyber risk management had less than a day in the last year to spend focused on cyber risk issues. The findings form part of a new report published by Marsh and Microsoft.
The Shared Assessments Program has published ‘The Board’s Role in Realizing Effective Risk Management’ – a new set of findings and recommendations developed with C-level executives and risk experts from a number of organizations.
The Travelers Companies, Inc. has announced the results of the 2019 Travelers Risk Index, which found that cyber risks are the top concern among US businesses of all sizes for the first time since the survey began in 2014.
According to a Deloitte extended enterprise risk management (EERM) survey, as better management of third party risk has been viewed as a transformation opportunity, boards and senior leadership have grown to have ultimate responsibility for EERM in more than three-quarters of respondent organizations.
Zurich Insurance, in collaboration with Advisen, has released the ninth annual cyber survey of corporate risk managers and insurance buyers revealing current views about information security and cyber risk management. A key finding of the 2019 survey is that business interruptions due to cyber events are a top concern.
CEOs have named climate change as the top risk to organizational growth in 2019, ahead of technological disruption, return to territorialism, cyber security and operational risk, according to the findings from KPMG’s 2019 Global CEO Outlook.
Lecio de Paula discusses changing risks associated with privacy and security and how convergence means that organizations need to consider taking a more holistic approach to managing these two aspects of data protection.
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