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Retail stockroom CCTV monitors beside a QR code on a clipboard, illustrating a shadow IT workaround that bypassed data protection sign-off

What the Met Police’s Auror Reprimand Really Teaches About Shadow IT

A LinkedIn Celebration, Six Months Before an Enforcement Notice In April, Auror’s co-founder and the Metropolitan Police’s official account posted on LinkedIn about a retail ...
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A supermarket worker uses a probe thermometer and clipboard to check the temperature of empty, fogged-up freezer cabinets, with the aisle closed off, after a cyber attack on the store’s refrigeration systems

Defrosted overnight: the French supermarket cyber attack and How it describes my job

When someone asks me what I do for a living, I usually take a breath before answering. Business continuity, crisis management, information security, data protection, ...
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Oil tanker sailing without lights at dusk through a rocky strait, with a distant lighthouse beam across the water

One in Twenty: What the Hormuz Bonus Tells Us About Risk Appetite

I was listening to Times Radio yesterday when the conversation turned to the pay now on offer to tanker crews prepared to take ships through ...
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Empty chair and staff lanyard beside a hospital computer showing a patient record with an access alert, after NHS snooping suspension

NHS Snooping Crackdown: Suspension Is the Easy Part

Back in June I wrote about three hospital trusts where dozens of staff had looked at the records of patients who happened to be in ...
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Ground crew repositioning an aircraft on a wet airport apron at dusk, with an air traffic control tower in the background

The Fault Lasted a Millisecond. The Recovery Took Days.

On 8 September, a defect in the software that allocates radar identification codes to aircraft over the UK lasted, by NATS’ own account, a matter ...
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Risk professional reviewing an AI risk register heat map next to an AI assistant chat window

A Researcher Just Put a Number on Human Extinction. Your Risk Register Needs a Different One.

This week produced three AI stories that look separate but aren’t. Anthropic’s own alignment lead put a number on AI wiping out humanity: a chance ...
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