Tag: Trends and Insights

Last week’s AI headlines did not just signal another round of model launches. They signaled a shift in cyber risk that business leaders should take seriously. In the space of a few days, Anthropic unveiled Mythos, OpenAI expanded trusted access to a more cyber-capable model for verified defenders and the UK government issued an open…

Recent ESG headlines are not pointing in one simple direction. In the U.S., the political environment has become less supportive of climate-related regulation under the current administration, but investor pressure has not disappeared. In the past week alone, investors pressed Amazon, Microsoft, and Google for sharper disclosure on the water and power demands of their…

On 31 March 2026 UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), called on businesses to review their use of automated decisions in recruitment and published fresh expectations for organizations using automated decision-making in hiring. The regulator said it had engaged with more than 30 employees, wrote to 16 organizations likely to be using automated decision-making in candidate…

As many business leaders will have noticed, data breach headlines have come thick and fast in early 2026, but the bigger story is not just volume. It is pattern. Look across the year’s most visible incidents and the same problem keeps surfacing through different routes. Different sectors, different systems, different immediate causes, but the same…

Recent reporting suggests compliance leaders are entering a tougher phase. Regulatory fragmentation is pushing businesses away from self-declaration and toward verified data. Meanwhile AI, fraud, and rising complexity are turning compliance into a technology arms race just as already-stretched teams face tighter resources and mounting pressure to move faster. That is exactly why the idea…

The European Commission published draft EU Cyber Resilience Act guidance on March 3, 2026, and opened feedback until March 31. The draft focuses on the exact implementation knots teams have been struggling with: remote data processing, free and open-source software, support periods, and how the CRA fits with other EU laws. That means this is…

HF Sinclair’s CFO, Atanas Atanasov, took a voluntary leave of absence after concerns raised by the audit committee, one week after CEO Tim Go did the same. The internal review started after concerns were raised about the company’s 2025 disclosure process and “tone at the top,” and the audit committee ultimately reported no deficiencies in financial reporting controls or disclosure…