Over a quarter of IT professionals have seen an employee fired after falling for an online scam. This is amongst the findings of security provider Arctic Wolf’s Human Risk Behaviour Report, which analysed the risk behaviours of 1,500 security professionals and end-users globally.

The deadline for entries for the 2025 National Insurance Awards is now four weeks away. Celebrating excellence in the field, the National Insurance Awards highlight the very best in general insurance provision and management in the UK. Judged by an independent panel of experts for exceptional performance, the awards provide an opportunity for organisations and individuals to showcase their strategies, software and successes from the past year.

Financial institutions should invest more to build agile scenario programmes or risk falling behind, as the pace of change in business needs and regulatory pressures threatens firms’ ability to manage risk effectively. This is the message from operational risk association, ORX. In its biggest ever benchmarking exercise on the end-to-end scenario process, the operational risk association worked with 90 global financial institutions to examine the maturity, advances and challenges of their scenario process.

Cyber security and data privacy represent the top risk across the technology, media and telecoms sectors, as they become increasingly reliant on novel technologies, including artificial intelligence, to drive growth. This is amongst the findings of WTW’s 2024 Technology Media and Telecoms Risk report, published today.

Law firm Shoosmiths has teamed up with governance, risk and compliance solutions provider, Enzai to develop an artificial intelligence tool for regulatory compliance. AI Comply is designed to provide legal guidance, technology governance and operational support for oversight and control of AI ecosystems.

Just 15% of risk professionals in the UK have confidence in the Government’s ability to mitigate and address geopolitical instability. This is amongst the findings of Axa’s latest Future Risks Report, which points to heightened concern about geopolitical risks and their knock-on effects on security, financial and energy markets, and cyber security.