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 269 (7th November 2025)
Sharp falls in technology stock prices are cause for caution but not panic yet, said brokers and investors who have been riding a runaway market to record highs and some stretched valuations.
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Friday Reading Edition 269 (7th November 2025)
The AI boom shares similarities with the tech bubble of the 1990s. Innovations can trigger manias. Investors chase the potential the innovations represent before knowing who will be the winners and losers.
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Friday Reading Edition 269 (7th November 2025)
The AI bubble, like all bubbles, will eventually pop. The tragedy is what we could have built instead — the schools, the hospitals, the clean water systems, the climate resilience, the human potential — if we had chosen differently. The opportunity is that we can still choose.
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Friday Reading Edition 269 (7th November 2025)
AI's market boom seems to be on course for a correction, exposing over reliance on a few highly visible firms. This concern is moving firms and governments to a greater focus on digital resilience and investments in diversified infrastructure.
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Friday Reading Edition 269 (7th November 2025)
Is your organisation truly managing AI – or just fragments of risk? Discover how AI, cyber and climate threats connect, and why unified, proactive strategies are essential for resilience.
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Friday Reading Edition 269 (7th November 2025)
Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a distant frontier but rather reshaping the risk and compliance landscape in real time. In a recent Moody’s webinar, Mind the gap: AI’s big leap in risk and compliance, industry leaders explored the evolving adoption of AI, its challenges, and the strategic imperatives for financial institutions.
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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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