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 267 (24th October 2025)
AWS provides tools and computers which enable around a third of the internet to work, it offers storage space and database management, it saves firms from having to maintain their own costly set-ups, and it also connects traffic to those platforms. The places hit by the outage vary significantly. It took out major social media platforms like Snapchat and Reddit, banks like Lloyds and Halifax, and games like Roblox and Fortnite.
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Friday Reading Edition 267 (24th October 2025)
Amazon Web Services experienced DNS resolution issues on Monday morning, taking down wide swaths of the web—and highlighting a long-standing weakness in the internet's infrastructure.
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Friday Reading Edition 267 (24th October 2025)
Organisations are getting more engaged and resilient, approaching maturity across key cyber risk domains. However, they were least prepared when it came to third-party risk and business resilience. Incidents such as the CrowdStrike outage in July 2024 served as a timely reminder of the potential loss severity associated with digital supply chain interconnectedness.
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Friday Reading Edition 267 (24th October 2025)
The CrowdStrike IT outage one year on – many of those impacted would have suffered significant losses, including lost revenue, potential liability to customers and potentially regulatory or crime-related losses. This note outlines the insurance cover that may be available to organisations that have been impacted by the outage (both directly and indirectly) and the steps organisations should take now to maximise their potential recoveries.
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Friday Reading Edition 267 (24th October 2025)
From the UK’s national cyber security agency – how to understand and manage the cyber security risks for your organisation.
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Friday Reading Edition 267 (24th October 2025)
Where have the challenges arisen when calculating cyber business interruption losses? And what can be done to improve the claims experience, for both insurers and policyholders? This report sets out some of the more common issues that have been seen on cyber business interruption claims, explains why these issues occur and offers some thoughts on how these problems can be addressed in the future.
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Friday Reading Edition 266 (17th October 2025)
The US president’s accomplishment in bringing about a ceasefire in Gaza is welcome. But without diplomatic engagement, a cornered and wounded Iran could undermine longer term peace.
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Friday Reading Edition 266 (17th October 2025)
The Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal in Gaza will not bring a return of global ocean freight shipping to the Red Sea. Houthi rebels who have been launching attacks on Red Sea trade said the targeting of the maritime routes will continue. The complexities involved in making changes to global trade routes, and the uncertainty regarding how the Middle East situation will play out.
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Friday Reading Edition 266 (17th October 2025)
On October 8, 2025, Israel and Hamas agreed to a US ceasefire proposal regarding the war in the Gaza Strip. Below, Brookings experts reflect on the agreement and what it means for the broader Middle Eastern region.
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Friday Reading Edition 266 (17th October 2025)
This podcast explores how K&R policies work in practice, from what’s typically included or can be added on, to response consultants, intelligence support, duty of care and crisis planning. Discussion moves on to examine where conditions are ripe for K&R to proliferate, from weak rule of law and organised crime to civil unrest and geopolitical instability, with case studies from Syria.
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