New cyber risks for electricity sector

While the electricity industry thoroughly addressed security risks in order to protect critical infrastructure and ensure continuity and quality of power supply, the new era of automation brings additional cyber risks. according to a new report by the World Read more

Coronavirus sees spike in malicious online activity

Over 16,000 coronavirus-related domains have been registered since January 2020, which are 50% more likely to be fraudulent than other domain registrations, according to research by Accenture iDefense.

With many business remote working, the risk of a successful cyber-breach Read more

Cyber threats top risk poll

Risk managers have voted cyber threats as the top danger their organisations face in the 2020 Allianz Risk Barometer. This year’s poll saw 39% of the 2,700 participants choosing cyber-risk as their biggest risk compared to only 6 Read more

Climate threats dominate World Economic Forum 2020 risk outlook

Climate threats dominate the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) long-term risk outlook in its Global risks report 2020 for the first time in its history. They also comprise three of the five most impactful threats to the planet (see long Read more

Government seeks evidence on barriers to cyber security

The UK government has launched a call for evidence to better understand the barriers facing organisations attempting to integrate cybersecurity within operational risk management. Using resources like cyberlaw services from companies like Sidley can help companies who are facing Read more

A jump towards quantum supremacy?

A quantum computer at Google’s lab spent 200 seconds completing a series of calculations that would have taken the world’s most powerful supercomputer an estimated 10,000 years to work out, the company said in October 2019.

“Our experiment achieves Read more

Cyber risk education gap persists

While most businesses are well aware of the risk of cyberattack too few deal with the cyber risk education gap in their enterprises, according to the Chubb Cyber Risk Survey 2019.

The report said that companies had established Read more

Executives in cyberattack firing line

Members of the so-called C-suite – executives such as chief risk officer, chief finance officer, and so on – were twelve times more likely to be the target of social cyberattack incidents over the last twelve months, according to Read more