The government must work more closely with households, communities and industry to ensure the food supply chain can withstand increasingly likely and severe shocks including extreme weather events, cyber-attacks and disease outbreaks, according to a report from the National Audit Office.

Broking platform Acrisure UK has teamed with cybersecurity provider ESET to provide clients with access to support for strengthening resilience, manage risk and respond to cyber incidents.

El Niño is firmly established and will intensify into a very strong event in the coming months, with big impacts on rainfall and temperature patterns and associated risks of floods, drought and extreme heat, according to a new update from the World Meteorological Organisation.

Re/insurer Howden Re has partnered with tech firm Synthetik Insurance Technologies, to launch a new analytics tool to help insurers and reinsurers better understand, quantify, and manage strikes, riots and civil commotion risk. UNREST combines property-level analytics and dynamic event simulation to provide a granular view of SRCC exposure and potential loss scenarios.

Cyber insurer Coalition has launched Active Cyber Insurance for Enterprises in the UK, a solution designed to meet the complex cyber risk needs of large organisations.

The rapid expansion of datacentres, AI and quantum computing will place increasing pressure on already vulnerable global critical mineral supply chains, according to new government-backed research.