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Venturing onto the darknet

With cybercrime one of the biggest threats faced by businesses today, risk professionals may see accessing the darknet as ‘putting your head… More

17 August 2018

Political risk, new technologies and business ethics will all be high on the agenda at the IRM’s Risk Leaders event in November, with keynote speakers and workshop leaders drawn from across the… More

With the government continuing to search for new, more efficient methods of working, its transformation programmes are often highly ambitious and reliant on both working online and implementing new technology. However, in… More

Companies paying up when hit with a ransomware demand don’t always see an immediate end to their troubles, according to this year’s global ransomware report 2018 from endpoint security specialists SentinelOne. The… More

Geopolitical risks are posing an increasing threat to the global economy, according to the 2018 update of the Cambridge global risk index, which shows a rise of 16 per cent year-on-year thanks… More

The National Audit Office (NAO) has published advice on how to manage the risk of spiralling costs in large projects, which are often high profile, complex and technically difficult. The NAO is responsible… More

More and more firms are now putting low probability catastrophic risks higher on their agenda. According to the authors of a recently published book, the reason for this is simple: these events… More

Talking with risk practitioners in the space industry about how their industry takes and manages risk is always invigorating and a terrific learning experience. Many of the approaches and solutions learned from… More

The IRM is introducing a new Certificate in Digital Risk Management to help risk managers get up to speed with the implications of new digital technologies and possible ways to manage the… More

In April this year, the IRM’s Internal Model Industry Forum (IMIF) released a report which outlined how insurance companies can factor operational risk into their insurance purchasing decisions – and many of… More