In today’s digital era, Internal Audit Functions worldwide are adopting new technologies and methodologies to bring value to their organizations. Organizations are innovating their Internal Audit processes to future proof themselves, by embracing change and disruption and understand how best to apply new approaches and technologies. Organizations are adopting advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, applying agile
In today’s globally connected business environment and the amount of data of that is being shared across the organizations, cybersecurity has become one of the major issues that need to be addressed. With new emerging technologies like Cloud Computing, Internet of Things organizations have become more vulnerable to cyber-attacks. With Cyber attacks becoming more and
Dynamic risk assessment is a proactive method of risk management. In the ever-changing and disruptive business environment traditional risk assessment models which are mostly based on the impact and the likelihood. fail to recognize the interconnection among the risks and more effective risk mitigation actions. DRA enables organizations to have a deep understanding of the
When it comes to disruptive risks, the majority of them are foreseeable when there is continuous and effective coordination between Board, C-suite, and management. Conventionally, for risk management, Boards rely on information from management to help identify and provide oversight of disruptive or emerging risks with a significant and critical impact on the company’s long
Adaptive governance is a framework for analyzing and monitoring the financial, social and operational foundations of the multilevel governance models that are successful in building resilience for the challenges posed by the ever-changing risk landscape. When it is possible to have an insight over the disruptive and ever-changing risk landscape, board members can aid in
In the ever-changing and disruptive business era Environmental, social and governance concerns are positioned at the top of the Board’s agenda. These concerns are central in terms of overall business growth and sustainability. To achieve its strategic objectives or goals, the organization’s need to align the ESG concerns and increasing stakeholder’s expectation with Enterprise Risk
Businesses are changing to embrace technological innovations. These rapid innovations are altering the business models and as a result, increasing the organizational risks. The innovations and ever-changing risk universe are challenging internal audit functions to be more relevant and specific. The Internal Audit framework must be able to assess and analyze the big amount of
With the ever-changing and dynamic business environment, there has been no single approach to risk management. The risk management strategies or approach should be rational, to quickly adapt to the ever-changing risk universe. Nature, complexity and constantly changing regulatory regulations in which the businesses operate, increases the importance of adapting and implementing effective risk management
If the data quality is not good, a Business cannot use the information to make sound business decisions – no matter how many talented data analysts work upon it. Enterprise Risk Management, especially, requires high-quality, integrated data for making risk-based informed decisions. For this purpose, a data management system is the primary key for providing
Due to the digitization era, the majority of the companies are moving toward a digital business model, that is generating a vast quantity of data concerning customers. Thereupon proliferation of client data creates valuable opportunities for firms to research and bear on it. However, this can be creating people’s personal lives open and susceptible to