Since March 2020, Airmic has been issuing Friday Reading, a curated series of readings and knowledge resources sent by email to Airmic members. The objective of Airmic Friday Reading was initially to keep members informed during the Covid-19 pandemic. Today, Airmic Friday Reading has evolved in scope to include content on a wide range of subjects with each email edition following a theme. This page is a searchable archive of all the readings and knowledge resources that have been shared.
Friday Reading Edition 90 (21st January 2022)
Ours is proving to be the century of cyber insecurity, yet few organizations have made sufficient progress in protecting information assets.
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Friday Reading Edition 90 (21st January 2022)
[Free to read upon sharing contact details] Discover how leading insurers make data-driven decisions on cyber risk, learn from past incidents, and identify possible upcoming cybersecurity perils and vulnerabilities to allow underwriters to make informed and profitable decisions.
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Friday Reading Edition 90 (21st January 2022)
[Free to read upon sharing contact details] This report analyses the cyber security threat landscape, its important characteristics and their potential impacts on cyber insurance. It provides a nation state level cyber threat activity update and review current criminal cyber threat actor activities, and also highlight predictions for what to expect in the first six months of 2022.
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Friday Reading Edition 89 (14th January 2022)
The telecoms and technology sector has weathered the coronavirus pandemic better than many others, despite supply-side disruption. Looking ahead, business and investor attention will be focused on the 5G rollout, semiconductor shortages and widespread changes to cyber security regulations.
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Friday Reading Edition 88 (7th January 2022)
As the world becomes increasingly connected to and reliant on the internet, risk is intensifying – from cyber security to carbon footprints. Join Charles Hecker and Claudine Fry for a conversation with in-house cyber experts Nicolas Reys and Stina Connor about current trends in cyber and why the decisions organisations make today will determine whether they exist at all in the decades to come.
Friday Reading Edition 88 (7th January 2022)
Journalists, media executives, columnists, commentators, and media critics—from the US and around the world—offered McKinsey their perspectives on what will make the news, from climate change and misinformation to the growing role of artificial intelligence and global supply-chain challenges. And, critically, what is unlikely to merit the headlines we all ought to see more of in the coming months.
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Friday Reading Edition 87 (17th December 2021)
The Chief of MI6 talked about the seismic changes he sees in the world, specifically in the espionage environment. He discussed China, Russia and Iran, three of the ‘Big Four’ priorities for the intelligence world. He also explained what the UK is doing to address the fourth priority – the amorphous, shape shifting character of international terrorism.
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Friday Reading Edition 86 (10th December 2021)
The development and adoption of artificial intelligence is accelerating significantly, but the big question now is how do we maximise its benefits while avoiding its biggest risks?
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Friday Reading Edition 86 (10th December 2021)
Look! Up in the sky! Not a bird … or a plane … it’s an eVTOL! An eVTOL (pronounced “ee-vee-tol”) is an electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft—and thousands of them could be flying above cities by 2030. Hear McKinsey experts and industry pioneers describe what’s coming in the world of “advanced air mobility” and how it could affect passengers, pilots, and our planet.
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Friday Reading Edition 85 (3rd December 2021)
[Free to read upon starting a free account] Interviewees of the report commented that their organisations had been targeted more in the last we months. However, organisations seem to be better prepared in preventing cyber attacks thanks to better cyber security systems in place, more staff dedicated to Cyber Resilience and more extensive training and exercising programmes.
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