In its Global Risks Report 2024, published in January, the World Economic Forum (WEF) surprised some people by placing misinformation and disinformation as the top risk over the next two years, but events seem to be supporting its position.
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Generative AI has enabled developers to create applications and APIs faster than ever before at a vast scale. However, new risks are also being created as a result, says Eric Schwake.
Robert Hall looks at the foundational elements of resilience and explains how they enable an entity to bounce forward in times of disruption, crisis, and change.
Semperis has published the results of a global ransomware study of nearly 1,000 IT and security professionals at organizations spanning multiple industries across the US, UK, France, and Germany.
Transmit Security has released an in-depth report into blackhat generative AI: ‘The GenAI-Fueled Threat Landscape’.
The Uptime Institute has published its 14th Annual Global Data Center survey. This found that the frequency and severity of data center outages remain mainly unchanged from 2023 or show small improvements.
A Gartner survey of 274 senior enterprise risk executives highlights the top five emerging risks in the second quarter of 2024. Concern about artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced malicious attacks topped the list.
According to an Airmic Big Question survey, the climate transition risk that most organizations measure is reputational risk.
The European Central Bank (ECB) has concluded its cyber resilience stress test, which gauged how regulated banks would respond to and recover from a severe but plausible cybersecurity incident.
A new paper from the Cloud Security Alliance’s AI Technology and Risk Working Group discusses the importance of AI model risk management and explores the core components of a framework for model risk management.









