
A quantum security provider has secured new portfolio backing today. Arqit will join Tomorrow Street’s scaleup portfolio as demand grows around post-quantum migration and cyber resilience.

Ministers warned boards AI is accelerating cyber risk across sectors. An open letter says frontier models are advancing faster in offensive cyber tasks, forcing companies to tighten governance, cyber hygiene, and incident preparedness.

Gallagher says executive impersonation fraud is now hitting UK businesses. New research points to deepfakes, voice cloning, and online executive exposure as growing risks for companies facing financial, legal, and operational disruption.

Cyber crises demand more than technical teams and technical fixes. Dan Potter of Immersive argues HR, legal, and communications must be drilled alongside security staff, with rehearsed handoffs and role-swap exercises helping organisations respond faster, and with greater cohesion, when incidents hit.

Basic security mistakes still dominate major cloud breaches, Wiz warns. New research says AI is widening the environments where known weaknesses appear, rather than creating entirely new classes of risk.

Unapproved AI use is outpacing policy inside UK workplaces today. Studio Graphene’s research suggests many organisations remain exposed on governance, communication, and oversight as employees adopt unsanctioned AI tools faster than leadership teams respond.

SonicWall says SMB cyber gaps remain painfully predictable in 2026. Its new report recasts annual threat research around protection outcomes, arguing that preventable operational failures still drive most small business exposure.

Paper records remain a stubborn data protection risk for employers. Officeology says thousands of paperwork-related breaches have been reported in recent years, with employee data regularly caught up in late-reported offline incidents.

Drata has unveiled agentic AI for enterprise trust workflows today. The release targets third-party risk, security questionnaires, and Trust Centre creation with more automated workflow ownership.

Check Point has launched a control layer for enterprise AI. The new AI Defense Plane is designed to govern employee AI use, AI applications, and agentic systems from one security architecture.