Risk Management stories
Many New Zealand firms say they could ride out an outage, but fewer than four in ten have tested recovery of critical systems recently.
Faster digital payments are leaving fintech firms exposed as regulators and attackers pressure weak controls and resilience across the sector.
Finance chiefs are facing tighter budgets as AI automation and new AML rules turn once-discretionary tech spend into a cost imperative.
Financial services firms risk stalled AI roll-outs and weaker supply chains unless governance and digital skills improve, experts warned.
Boards need to rethink cyber oversight as AI speeds up attacks and raises the risk of business disruption, Google Cloud says.
Security teams may get earlier warning of hijacked AI agents as fake credentials and decoy tools are planted to expose misuse.
Enterprise buyers are demanding tighter controls as AI tools move into live systems, with governance now central to deployment decisions.
Many AI agents can already reach far more sensitive corporate data than staff, prompting Bedrock Data to add real-time access controls.
Enterprise security teams face fresh oversight burdens as Reco joins OpenAI's partner network to monitor agent access and permissions.
Security teams face faster, more convincing phishing as Doppel rolls out tools that link inbox alerts to attack infrastructure and automate awareness training.
Rising regulatory pressure could force banks, merchants and payment firms to tighten controls on AI and card costs as Australia reforms payments.
Financial institutions still face hidden fourth-party risks even after Microsoft, Google Cloud, AWS and Oracle were designated as critical providers.
Growth in India and the Gulf is exposing weak customer data, with inaccurate records slowing onboarding, payments and fraud checks.
The ranking reinforces Incode's pitch to banks and platforms seeking faster checks as deepfakes and synthetic identities raise fraud risk.
A survey of 204 US executives found 22% had suffered an AI-enabled breach in ERP systems, deepening doubts over existing safeguards.
A poor checkout can cost local merchants repeat trade, with 55% of consumers saying one bad payment experience would stop or deter them returning.
Supply chain attacks are pushing cyber risk upstream, putting managed service providers under pressure from customers and regulators over shared access.
Security teams could close coverage gaps faster, as Prophet's new tool uses past investigations to write and test detections automatically.
Security teams can now query systems and trigger approved actions in plain English, as Legion's DragonClaw aims to cut manual investigation work.
The move gives Canada's prepaid lobby broader fintech and banking expertise as prepaid rails become central to digital financial services.