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 314 (9th October 2026)
Most organisations already have extensive information about change. Risk registers, horizon-scanning exercises, scenarios, stress tests, internal audit programmes and specialist analysis provide leaders with evidence about how the operating environment is evolving. The harder task is determining which developments matter, which assumptions are changing and what decisions should change as a result.
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Friday Reading Edition 314 (9th October 2026)
Risk managers are not short of data. Where true value from data comes in though, is in having decision-ready insight. Claims information is usually dispersed across insurers, TPAs, brokers and various internal systems, each providing a partial, disjointed view of performance. For large organisations, the priority is to create a trusted, single version of the truth that helps with analysing claim costs, challenging assumptions and supporting better commercial, strategic and governance decisions.
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Friday Reading Edition 314 (9th October 2026)
Traditional enterprise risk management needs to pave the way for proactive, real-time risk monitoring and intelligence. Today, organisations face a fundamentally different risk landscape from the one that shaped traditional enterprise risk management (ERM). Geoeconomic fragmentation, technological disruption, cyber insecurity, climate volatility and societal polarisation, among other risks, are interacting more deeply and materialising more rapidly than traditional frameworks were designed to manage.
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Friday Reading Edition 314 (9th October 2026)
Findings from the 2026 Strategic Imperatives and Risk Management Survey – the report shows where companies are making progress, where capability gaps remain, and what separates more mature organisations from the rest. It helps you benchmark your current approach across five critical areas and identify where risk can play a stronger role in decision-making. If you want to move from monitoring risk to helping drive action, this report will help you do it.
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Friday Reading Edition 314 (9th October 2026)
Data is the foundation, and AI sits below that, feeding off the data foundation. Next is analytics: analysers that are forward looking, benchmarks that help clients compare themselves to others, and diagnostics that help isolate problems and recommend how to improve results. The 2026 Intangible versus Tangible Risks Comparison Report is based on insights from 2,487 risk, cyber and finance professionals across regions, industries and organisation sizes worldwide. The research confirms that information assets – data, IP, models and digital infrastructure – now slightly exceed the value of traditional physical assets on corporate balance sheets.
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Friday Reading Edition 314 (9th October 2026)
AI isn’t just evolving risk management — it’s helping reengineering it. Artificial intelligence (AI), including generative AI (Gen AI) and agentic AI, is driving a seismic shift in how organisations anticipate, assess, and act on risk. The old playbook of manual processes, backward-looking assessments, and fragmented frameworks is being replaced by intelligent systems that learn, adapt, and act in real time.
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Friday Reading Edition 313 (2nd October 2026)
The latest advisory from the UK’s national authority for cybersecurity – the NCSC is urging UK organisations to promptly mitigate vulnerabilities affecting Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway, two of which are being actively exploited.
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Friday Reading Edition 313 (2nd October 2026)
The gap between future quantum risk and today’s cybersecurity planning has narrowed considerably over the past year. Policy-makers worldwide have already begun to move on quantum-safe cybersecurity and the private sector will follow. Organisations should not wait for legislation and instead look to integrating quantum readiness into cybersecurity now.
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Friday Reading Edition 313 (2nd October 2026)
If a ransomware event shuts down a critical system, your board will focus on operations, revenue and recovery long before it discusses the technical vulnerability that led to the incident. Which operations and supplier relationships can continue? Which customers will feel the impact and what will this do to revenues?
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Friday Reading Edition 313 (2nd October 2026)
AI is creating new categories of cyber threat but it’s also acting as a force multiplier for risks that organisations already have, while creating operational and legal exposures that may have nothing to do with hackers at all. The easiest way to think about the problem is: how is AI being used against you, by you and around you?
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