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Boards are paying for analytical confidence including polished assessments with clear conclusions which signal certainty, but what’s not visible is the process behind that confidence. Businesses rarely see the reasoning chain or the assumptions that would blow an assessment apart if they proved false. Recent geopolitical volatility, such as the US-Iran conflict, has shown the consequences of unverified or weakly interrogated inputs. Misreading political risk According to Adam Irwin Mana...

A 2022 report from the Office for National Statistics, the most comprehensive on phishing to date, has revealed that half of all adults residing in the UK have reported receiving a phishing message. In the last year, 85% of UK businesses and 86% of charities faced at least one phishing attack, with 32% of phishing emails being AI-generated, leveraging scraped social media or dark web data and real-time language tweaking. Advance fee fraud The average loss for businesses from phishing attacks...

Over the last 10 years, threats to the UK, including espionage, terrorism, cyber-attacks, and disinformation, have increased dramatically in volume and velocity. Globally, multiple state-on-state conflicts pose serious risks, with the potential to escalate into both intra and intercontinental struggles. Range of sub-sectors Private Equity activity across Security-Tech has continued to grow year-on-year, with 191 direct investments made since 2018 across a range of sub-sectors. These include...