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 264 (3rd October 2025)
From Ed Reis and Sarah Morris at Sedgwick – commercial property insurance is navigating a constantly evolving landscape in 2025, in which rising costs, labour shortages and the ever-present threat of business interruption are reshaping how claims are managed.
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Friday Reading Edition 264 (3rd October 2025)
More and more organisations are experiencing first-hand how costly ransomware attacks can be in terms of time, energy and money. Behind the scenes, large cyber insurance claims are often an underpublicised source of stress for these organisations, many of whom may wish in retrospect that they had taken proactive steps that would have made the cyber claims process more efficient and more cost-effective.
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Friday Reading Edition 258 (22nd August 2025)
Watch the interview with Charles Hecker, Russia analyst and author, who speaks to Hoe-Yeong Loke, Head of Research at Airmic, after a whirlwind of meetings and global power play over the weekend. With no ceasefire on the table, Trump and Putin have left more questions than answers. As President Zelensky and European leaders leave Washington, is the real turning point yet to come? How should risk professionals and boards prepare for the next steps in the war?
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Friday Reading Edition 258 (22nd August 2025)
Guests Vyacheslav Andriyko and Karan Chandan share insights on the international market's response to risks in Ukraine, the potential for public-private partnerships, and the importance of a nuanced approach to underwriting in Ukraine.
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