risk management

Navigating the practicalities of AI regulation and legislation

12 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, Azure, chatbot, compliance, Computer, data privacy, GDPR, Google, machine learning, Meta, Microsoft, risk management, Salesforce, social media, Tech / By

Misusing artificial intelligence (AI) can have some very clear and expensive consequences. Movie studio Lionsgate recently joined a long list of organisations discovering that quotations and citations from generative AI (GenAI) systems need to be verified like any other source; Microsoft is being sued by a German journalist after Bing Copilot suggested he had committed crimes…

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CISOs: Don’t rely solely on technical defences in 2025

4 minutes of reading / agile, AI, cybersecurity, risk management, Tech / By

Threats have been more sophisticated, unpredictable and harder to pin down. Attackers don’t just exploit technical weaknesses – they target human behaviour, organisational blind spots, and even regulatory loopholes. From spear phishing and deepfake fraud to misinformation generated by artificial intelligence (AI), cyber criminals are using emerging technologies to launch attacks with precision and ease.…

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Overcoming the cyber paradox: Shrinking budgets – growing threats

4 minutes of reading / AI, automation, compliance, risk management, Tech, Technology / By

Recent years have seen a general cost-cutting in organisations caused by economic pressures. Many organisations have seen a fall in customer demand due to the cost-of-living crisis, as well as inflationary pressures affecting costs. Higher interest rates, increasing organisations’ cost of capital, are another factor. There’s also a sense of fatigue associated with spending on…

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Government issues strategic priorities for online safety regulator Ofcom

5 minutes of reading / agile, AI, compliance, risk management, social media, Tech / By

The UK government has issued a draft of its strategic priorities for Ofcom under the Online Safety Act (OSA), which the regulator will have to consider when it starts enforcing the new rules from spring 2025. Passed in October 2023, the obligations placed on digital platforms by the OSA mean they must prevent children from…

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China’s Volt Typhoon rebuilds botnet in wake of takedown

3 minutes of reading / Cisco, IPS, risk management, Tech, VPN / By

The Chinese state threat actor most famously known as Volt Typhoon is staging a significant comeback after its botnet infrastructure was disrupted in a US-led takedown at the beginning of February 2024. Volt Typhoon’s malicious botnet comprised hundreds of Cisco and Netgear small and home office (SOHO) routers that had reached end-of-life (EOL) status and…

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EMEA businesses siphoning budgets to hit NIS2 goals

4 minutes of reading / compliance, digital transformation, risk management, Tech / By

With the European Union’s (EU) NIS2 regulations now in full effect, IT leaders across the region report that they are struggling to secure budget to support their compliance efforts, with 95% reporting they are being forced to dip into funds reserved for other things. This is according to a Censuswide study of EMEA IT leaders…

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Data classification: What, why and who provides it

5 minutes of reading / AI, API, AWS, Azure, Cloud, compliance, Google, Google Cloud, IBM, internet of things, machine learning, Microsoft, Oracle, Oracle Cloud, risk management, SAP, Tech / By

When it comes to managing data, we need to know where it is – but we also need to know what it is. With the rise in regulatory controls, enterprises now pay more attention to data sovereignty, especially when it comes to data in the cloud, but to know exactly what information they hold is…

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EU cyber security bill NIS2 hits compliance deadline

4 minutes of reading / AI, cloud computing, compliance, risk management, Tech / By

The European Union’s (EU) landmark cyber security bill NIS2 has come into full force, meaning companies must now comply with its requirements or face hefty fines. Under the directive, which aims to harmonise cyber security rules and procedures across the bloc, EU-based businesses operating in critical sectors – including energy, transport, water, financial services and healthcare…

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Cyber firms need to centre their own resilience

3 minutes of reading / agile, business continuity, cybersecurity, disaster recovery, Microsoft, risk management, Tech / By

Information security is essentially an information risk management discipline. By rendering many information systems inoperable, the global outage precipitated by Crowdstrike prevented several companies from accessing critical business information due to unplanned and extended downtime. The unavailability was not only to information systems, but also to related information processing. It was not only an information…

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Q&A: Adalbjorn Thorolfsson on IT project management in Iceland

8 minutes of reading / AI, Computer, internet of things, Kanban, project management, risk management, Scrum, Tech / By

The Icelandic Project Management Association was founded in 1984 by engineers and, as such, was initially focused on engineering projects. As project management evolved and became used in more sectors, such as information technology, healthcare, finance and the public sector, the composition of the members of the association and the board changed accordingly. Adalbjorn Thorolfsson…

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