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 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 247 (9th May 2025)
The NCSC is working with organisations affected by the recent incidents to understand the nature of the attacks and to minimise the harm done by them, and providing advice to the wider sector and economy.
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Friday Reading Edition 247 (9th May 2025)
This white paper delves into the practical aspects of cyber resilience, drawn from the front-line practices of leading organisations globally. In doing so, it seeks to equip organisations with the insights needed to build robust cyber resilience roadmaps and confidently navigate today’s increasingly complex threat landscape.
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Friday Reading Edition 247 (9th May 2025)
Commissioned by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and the Home Office, this survey provides a comprehensive overview of the cyber security landscape for UK businesses and charities.
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