Cyber insurance underused

Businesses are finding it difficult to protect themselves against the increasingly diverse range of tactics deployed by cyber criminals and cyber insurance is underused. Recently, organisations have experienced a rise in destructive malware attacks, for instance, which are designed Read more

Businesses fail to quantify risk

While businesses manage risk in a wide variety of ways, too many are not quantifying the threats they face, according to Aon’s Global risk management survey 2019.

In a wide-ranging report of global businesses, it found that only 24 Read more

Humans and AI together

In 2021, artificial intelligence (AI) augmentation will create $2.9 trillion of business value and 6.2 billion hours of worker productivity globally, according to Gartner, the research analyst.

Gartner says augmented intelligence, which it defines as ”a human-centred partnership model Read more

Making the investment case for ERM

By Sam Elwell

We are seeing a growing recognition of the importance of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM). Businesses are increasingly deciding to carve ERM out as a standalone function. Even where ERM is not mandatory, businesses see the potential Read more

10th Annual Risk Leaders Conference 

A decade of discovery and disruption

Thursday 14 November 2019 | Inmarsat, London

What are the real risk issues for boards today? Are they pre-occupied with fighting short term tactical battles while missing some big picture changes like digital Read more

Privacy watchdog warning on facial recognition technology

The Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has warned that the use of live facial recognition (LFR) technology must comply with privacy laws.

“Any organisation using software that can recognise a face amongst a crowd then scan large databases of people Read more

Ofwat imposes stiff penalties on Southern Water

Southern Water has been fined £3 million in penalties and £123 million in payments to customers, following an investigation by the regulator Ofwat. It is the biggest penalty Ofwat has imposed.

The watchdog found that the company had deliberately Read more

Cyber skills shortage adds to attack threat

Cyber security professionals say adversaries have an overwhelming upper hand in the war to protect organisations from online crime – and that skills shortage in the field is making matters worse.

Those were two key findings of the third Read more