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Technology Consulting & Services in South Africa
FTI Consulting South Africa Technology practice helps clients maintain regulatory compliance, reduce legal and IT costs, protect sensitive materials and improve business efficiencies.
We offer specialist advice in forensic analytics, electronic discovery, cyber response, decision analytics, data extraction and preservation, data transformation and management, and operational analytics and visualisation.
We’ve earned our reputation by helping clients navigate and solve their data-related business challenges. As data grows with complexity, we help organisations govern, secure, find, analyse and rapidly make sense of information.
Innovative technology, expert services and tenacious problem-solving provide our regional clients with defensible and repeatable solutions. Organisations rely on us to root out fraud, maintain regulatory compliance, reduce legal and IT costs, protect sensitive materials, quickly find facts, and harness organisational data to create business value.
Resilience Barometer®
The FTI Consulting South Africa Resilience Barometer® provides a guideline to companies on how to navigate the continuing disruption and uncertainty and increase their resilience: that is, to ensure they are prepared for whatever comes next. At the dawning of the post-pandemic era, facing unprecedented technological disruptions, rapidly outdating business models and the exposure of socioeconomic fault lines – of which there will be far-reaching repercussions – C-Suites confront a concoction of risk. And looming over this mix, exacerbated by rising unemployment, ongoing corruption and financial criminality abetted by cybersecurity threats is the concern of new vaccine-resistant COVID-19 variants. How companies emerge into the light of day will depend on their resilience — their ability to successfully mitigate the risks and threats through informed insights and solid preparation.
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Corporations and their law firms choose FTI Consulting to effectively deliver a wide range of solutions, including:
Data & Analytics
The independent, trusted professionals at FTI Consulting are experts at using data to reveal underlying truths of business operations, and to support companies during regulatory inquiries, competition law, sanctions and with disputes.
E-discovery
New discovery challenges, from collecting off emerging data sources to evolving data privacy laws, ongoing discovery challenges such as large data volumes, multilingual reviews, and the need for rapid understanding of critical documents. FTI Consulting acts as your trusted partner to provide innovative solutions with defensible results.
Managed Review
Our managed review experts deliver efficiency at every step of a comprehensive legal review ensuring the provision of key information early in your case and frequently throughout the review, until completion. Our collaborative approach allows us to help you manage your matter, deliver quality results, and provide transparent pricing.
Information Governance, Privacy & Security
As data volumes increase, challenges range broadly, from securely storing data in compliance with data privacy regulations to implementing data governance and preservation policies for legal obligations. We develop, implement and document information governance programs that reduce corporate risk, secure data, improve the e-discovery process and enable faster and deeper insight into data.
Cybersecurity
Our clients rely on FTI Consulting’s intelligence-led, expert-driven, strategic approach to global cybersecurity challenges affecting your organisation – your people, your operations, and your reputation. We are a global leading provider of independent cyber and risk management advisory services with a core offering focused on cyber readiness, incident response, and complex investigation and litigation.
Blockchain & Digital Assets
Our team of blockchain and digital assets experts specializes in Web3, NFTs, stablecoins, and cryptocurrencies. With backgrounds in regulation, law enforcement, cybersecurity and finance, we offer comprehensive support for risk, compliance, transactions, disputes and investigations. We have hands-on experience in high-profile cases involving theft and misappropriation of digital assets.
Location:
Cape Town
8th Floor
125 Buitengracht Street
Cape Town 8001
South Africa
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+27 21 487 9000
Johannesburg
173 Oxford Road
Rosebank
Johannesburg 2196
South Africa
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+27 11 214 2400
Featured Expert:
Geoff Budge
Managing Director - Head of Technology
Geoff.Budge@fticonsulting.com
+2776 400 6237
Geoff is a Managing Director in the Forensic & Litigation division at FTI Consulting. He has approximately 24 years of experience in the forensic field. Geoff is based in Cape Town, South Africa where he delivers Forensic Investigation services, with a strong focus on the use of data analytics and other enabling technologies in conducting successful investigations.
Geoff has international and regional experience in delivering reactive investigations, proactive forensic risk management and other technology-focused consulting engagements over the past 14 years. These covered fraud investigations, intellectual property compliance reviews, digital evidence recovery, data analysis, litigation support & testimony and IT consulting engagements.
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Confronting Data Risk with Expertise and Innovation
Amid an exponentially expanding universe of data, organisations are grappling with how to root out fraud, maintain regulatory compliance, protect sensitive information and mitigate an ever-expanding landscape of risk.
Risk & Compliance Services for Smarsh
Smarsh clients are investing in Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered solutions to uncover risk, comply with regulations and safeguard corporate reputations. With growing concerns over the volume and variety of corporate communications and the increased potential for non-compliant behaviors to go undetected, it is necessary to leverage data and analytics to mitigate a wide range of risks. FTI Technology provides additional services in Risk & Compliance to address growing challenges and maintain a healthy compliance program while keeping control over the overall cost of compliance.
Information Governance Services for Smarsh
Smarsh clients are taking proactive steps in the management of corporate communications to reduce their compliance risk and mitigate the rising cost of data management. With the Smarsh archive in place, further enhancements can help address broader challenges with corporate data across a diverse set of enterprise end-users that strengthen the ROI on this investment. FTI Technology provides a comprehensive suite of services to provide comfort that regulatory obligations are satisfied and business objectives are met.
The Judicial Commission of Inquiry into allegations of State Capture exacerbated the need for entities in South Africa to know more about their clients, vendors, agents, partners etc. It is not an easy task shifting through big volumes of data in order to bring forth context, the bigger picture and discern between allegations and facts. FTI realised that there should be an easier way to allow a reader to be able to, with the click of a button or two, to gain access to structured state capture related data and allow the reader to spend the time assessing impact rather than waste time finding a needle in a haystack.
The State of Emerging Data 2022: Waking a Sleeping Giant
Compliance, legal and IT teams face a dynamic data universe that is generating an unprecedented and varied influx of risk. The increased use of cloud-based and collaboration tools is creating challenges across investigations, legal matters, governance and data protection. Adapting to this new landscape of emerging data sources will be paramount to mitigating risks and establishing new best practices.
FTI Consulting’s Risk Intelligence Reports
FTI Consulting South Africa’s Forensic and Litigation Consulting segment is pleased to present Investigation, Risk & Intelligence Services (IRIS), its enhanced investigative service offering comprising corporate intelligence, reputational due diligence and verification.
FTI Consulting South Africa Brochure
FTI Consulting is an independent global business advisory firm dedicated to helping organisations manage change, mitigate risk and resolve disputes: financial, legal, operational, political & regulatory, reputational and transactional.
Forensic Investigations - South Africa
Our multi-disciplinary team of specialist investigators, forensic accountants, forensic lawyers, data analysts and computer forensic experts undertake investigations involving corporate fraud, whistle- blowing, employee negligence, white-collar crime, regulatory violations, financial misstatement and supply chain and bribery and corruption allegations. In addition, we can act as an expert witness in court.
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Driving Innovative Client Solutions
At FTI Technology we drive innovative client solutions to solve data-related business challenges. Innovative technology, expert services and tenacious problem-solving provide our global clients with defensible and repeatable solutions. Technology plays a key role in turning large and complex volumes of data into information that enables businesses to make informed decisions.
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The State of Emerging Data 2023: An Overlapping Arrival and Departure - EMEA
Emerging data sources passed a tipping point this year. It was an expected turn for experts watching the evolution of systems, applications, technology adoption and communication habits over the past several years. Some understood that this year would bring an arrival of a new data reality. Indeed expectations have been validated — 71% of CIOs from the world’s largest organizations now say that the explosion of data is beyond human ability to manage. Simply, traditional data norms have been replaced by a complex, vast, dynamic and constantly changing data universe.
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Forensic Analysis and E-Discovery Complexities in Cloud-Based Investigations - EMEA
The corporate transition to the cloud continues to present significant, continually evolving challenges for discovery in disputes and investigations. The majority of enterprise data now reside in expansive cloud-based environments, and productivity platforms such as Microsoft 365 promise robust discovery and compliance features, alongside a continually evolving feature set. As a result, there has been a trend towards conducting cloud-first and cloud-only data collection and preservation — a departure from the traditional approach of broadly collecting data from custodian devices, removable media and on-premises server-based sources.
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After implementing Smarsh to archive all communications, a major national bank needed access across multiple end-user teams and functions, including legal, regulatory compliance and more. The bank engaged FTI Technology to provide access to this single source of communications data for a broader audience, thus enhancing the bank’s return on its initial technology implementation.
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The Most Valuable, Vulnerable Commodity - EMEIA
The FTI Technology Digital Insights & Risk Management Study, a comprehensive report that examines the extent to which organizations are recognizing the high stakes of data and effectively managing digital risk, involved senior business leaders from various global geographies and industries, with over 90% being at the executive level with primary or final decision-making authority.
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The 2023 General Counsel Report - EMEA
Risk is now at the centre of every conversation in the modern legal department. Over four consecutive years of study in the annual General Counsel Report, in-house counsel have expressed how they’ve been required to evolve and reinvent their roles. Once seen only as risk mitigators, they have become strategic business partners and have taken on an array of new responsibilities across a widening risk landscape.
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Establishing Compliance Under South Africa’s Data Protection Regulation
The Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) took effect in South Africa in July 2021, following a lengthy revision process and a one-year grace period for organisations to become compliant. POPIA brings South Africa’s data landscape into alignment with a growing number of jurisdictions that have adopted stringent data protection regulations resembling Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
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Lack of cybersecurity preparedness continues to create problems and risks for companies in South Africa. The 2020 FTI Consulting Resilience Barometer, which polled more than 2,000 respondents from large companies across all G20 countries, reported that companies in the region are suffering cyber attacks and falling victim to ransomware more than global averages (33% vs. 27% for overall attacks). While most leaders in the region are aware of the risks - 84% surveyed believe they have cybersecurity gaps - less than half said they have made investments in that part of their business in the last 12 months. This disparity between known risk and response is concerning even during the best of times.
Strengthening Cyber Resilience in the Wake of the Pandemic
Cybersecurity remains a significant concern for businesses in South Africa. Early on in the pandemic, cybersecurity experts reported dramatic increases in attacks on businesses in the region, with hundreds of thousands of devices and accounts being exploited each week. Unfortunately, though cyber risks have continued to increase, the pressures of the last year have prevented most businesses from taking the proactive steps needed to mitigate their risk.
Resilience Barometer - South Africa
At the dawning of the post-pandemic era, South African companies are facing unprecedented technological disruptions, rapidly outdating business models and the exposure of socio-economic fault lines. C-Suites are confronted with a concoction of risks that are exacerbated by the rising of unemployment, ongoing corruption, financial criminality, cybersecurity threats and concerns around the new vaccine-resistant COVID-19 variants. How companies emerge into the light of day will depend on their resilience and ability to successfully mitigate the risks and threats through informed insights and solid preparation.
The Benefits, Risks and Limitations of Lifestyle Audits
The ‘lifestyle audit’ is a buzzword on the South African anti-corruption agenda. In 2018, incumbent president Cyril Ramaphosa called for lifestyle audits on people in positions of responsibility. Some state employees, including members of the Western Cape cabinet and South Africa’s national power company Eskom, have already been subjected to lifestyle audits.