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Among the risks companies have to manage, few are as critical and so poorly understood as the risk of cyber-attacks.

After Brexit, companies are facing great uncertainty. It seems that Great Britain does not intend to use any available schemes and therefore a lack of clear rules and limitations over the next two years may cause confusion. It is apparent that companies cannot operate in an uncertain climate and therefore they might decide to opt for countries with a definite set of rules, though with less favourable tax rates.

On 29 March 2017 the conference on opportunities and tax risks for multinational companies will be held in Milan.

Results of IBR Women in business 2017: globally, 25% of senior roles is held by women, in Italy, 27%.

The new GDPR introduces stricter requirements on all business activities involving personal data processing.

On 16 March 2017, the conference “Brexit: a challenge, an opportunity” will be held at Unindustria premises in Rome.

Gabriele Felici is lecturer at the Training Course for Over-indebtedness Crisis Management, on 3 and 10 March in Rome.

Cybersecurity is a very current topic . No organization, large or small, can be considered immune from the possibility of attacks. It is therefore necessary to become aware of this phenomenon and to put in place the infrastructure and procedures that minimize and, if possible, avoid these risks knowing fully well that any policy must be monitored and updated to adapt to the risks that constantly evolve and change.

Gabriele Felici, partner of Bernoni Grant Thornton, is a lecturer at the Advance Training Course for Over-indebtedness Crisis Management held in Ferrara on January 30, 2017.

On January 24 2017, the conference "Defence Belongs to Humans - La miglior difesa è la conoscenza", organised by YOROI and sponsored by Bernoni Grant Thornton will be held at Area Pergolesi in Via Pergolesi 8, Milano. The event will focus on cybersecurity updates while presenting the outcome of the survey “Cybersecurity: the level of understanding and awareness about digital vulnerability” commissioned by Yoroi and conducted in Italy by Euromedia Research.

A lack of awareness is fuelling the surge in cyber crime but there are pragmatic steps that organisations can take. Tucked away in an office block in central London is a room dedicated to finding flaws in organisations’ cyber defences. Many such rooms exist. It’s just that few are operated by the good guys.

Enrico Cimpanelli, Principal at Grant Thornton Financial Advisory Services, participates as speaker in a conference on corporate frauds and crimes, on 23 November 2016, organised by Optime.

Enrico Cimpanelli speaks at a conference on corporate frauds and the role of supervisory bodies