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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.

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International SOS, 1st January 2022
Friday Reading Edition 91 (28th January 2022)
Utilising International SOS risk rating algorithm, experts share their views on the future impact, their key predictions and recommendations for organisations to consider when accessing medical risk ratings of specific locations.
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McKinsey & Co, 28th October 2021
Friday Reading Edition 91 (28th January 2022)
With prospects of herd immunity fading, endemic COVID-19 is upon us, and new “whole of society” approaches are needed.
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World Economic Forum, 18th January 2022
Friday Reading Edition 90 (21st January 2022)
The first Global Cybersecurity Outlook flagship report identifies the trends and analyses the near-term future cybersecurity challenges. The accelerated shift to remote working during the COVID-19 pandemic coupled with recent high-profile cyberattacks have resulted in bringing cybersecurity top of mind among key decision-makers in organisations and nations.
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Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) , 15th November 2021
Friday Reading Edition 90 (21st January 2022)
There is a growing market for technology platforms which support organisations to manage supplier risk, and respondents viewed these as the most effective commercial tool for managing supply chain cyber security risk. The government is committed to supporting this market.
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McKinsey & Co, 4th August 2021
Friday Reading Edition 90 (21st January 2022)
Ours is proving to be the century of cyber insecurity, yet few organizations have made sufficient progress in protecting information assets.
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CyberCube
Friday Reading Edition 90 (21st January 2022)
[Free to read upon sharing contact details] This report analyses the cyber security threat landscape, its important characteristics and their potential impacts on cyber insurance. It provides a nation state level cyber threat activity update and review current criminal cyber threat actor activities, and also highlight predictions for what to expect in the first six months of 2022.
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Intelligent Insurer 
Friday Reading Edition 90 (21st January 2022)
[Free to read upon sharing contact details] Discover how leading insurers make data-driven decisions on cyber risk, learn from past incidents, and identify possible upcoming cybersecurity perils and vulnerabilities to allow underwriters to make informed and profitable decisions.
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Pool Re, 22nd December 2021
Friday Reading Edition 89 (14th January 2022)
[Free to access upon setting up an account] It feels appropriate, a couple of months after the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, to pause and consider whether the world is more, or less, secure from terrorism than in the latter part of the previous century. We inhabit a world where traditional terrorist threats, which tended to be localised and focused on the destruction of property and killing servicemen, policemen and public figures, feel somewhat primitive. Our new world is populated by Jihadis and extremists who buy ‘one-way tickets’ on route to martyrdom and mass casualty events.
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Chatham House, 3rd December 2021
Friday Reading Edition 89 (14th January 2022)
As Russia assembles both the means for conducting an attack on Ukraine and the excuses for doing so, its demands for avoiding a conflict are expanding rapidly. How the US, NATO, and the West respond to those demands and the overt military threats accompanying them will have far-reaching consequences for the future direction of Russia as a state, and consequently for the security of Europe.
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The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), 29th November 2021
Friday Reading Edition 89 (14th January 2022)
The telecoms and technology sector has weathered the coronavirus pandemic better than many others, despite supply-side disruption. Looking ahead, business and investor attention will be focused on the 5G rollout, semiconductor shortages and widespread changes to cyber security regulations.
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