Features 12.05.2026
AI Autopsy: Vercel Breach Shows SaaS Integrations Are the New Attack Path
How one supply chain incident snowballed into a full-blown customer data breach
Features 06.05.2026
AI Autopsy: A Systemic Flaw in MCP Puts the Agentic AI Supply Chain at Risk
What happens when a ‘systemic’ flaw appears in a protocol, and its designer refuses to patch it?
Features 03.03.2026
AI Autopsy: France Travail’s 37 Million Reasons to Improve Security Posture
France Travail’s failings are a reminder that identifying risk is not the same as managing it
Assured Reacts
Assured Reacts 24.04.2026
Assured Reacts: FT Coverage on AI and Cyber Insurance
The Financial Times recently reported that insurers are introducing sublimits for certain AI-related risks. Assured looks beyond the headlines to explain what these changes really mean for clients.
Assured Reacts 23.04.2026
Archie Norman, M&S Chairman: “Insure for a cyber catastrophe”
Archie Norman, M&S Chairman, advises retailers to check their cyber insurance and insure for a catastrophe, not a minor loss
Assured Reacts 16.04.2026
Assured Reacts: UK Government Writes Open Letter to UK Businesses on AI Risk in Wake of Anthropic’s Mythos Announcement
Mythos won’t just find vulnerabilities faster, it will change how quickly organisations need to respond
Features
Features 17.06.2026
AI Autopsy: South Staffordshire Water’s £1m Lesson in Visibility
An ICO incident post-mortem has some useful takeaways for CISOs
Features 09.06.2026
Agentic Threats: How to Manage a Problem Like OpenClaw
OpenClaw promises productivity gains, but its autonomy, access and growing shadow AI footprint could make it a security team’s next major challenge
Weekly Cyber Briefing
Weekly Cyber Briefing 03.07.2026
Weekly Cyber Update: 3 July 2026
Oracle EBS customers targeted; ransomware surges in Europe; A massive Microsoft 365 password spraying campaign; OpenAI used for eavesdropping; FortiBleed is linked to two major ransomware groups
Weekly Cyber Briefing 26.06.2026
Weekly Cyber Update: 26 June 2026
More warnings over frontier AI; another OAuth supply chain breach; maximum severity Ubiquiti flaws are exploited; and a phishing awareness exercise goes badly wrong
Weekly Cyber Briefing 19.06.2026
Weekly Cyber Update: 18 June 2026
Ransomware actors hide in Teams; a massive Fortinet credential leak; Litespeed users are targeted; and warnings of nation state OT activity and AI data leakage.
Interviews
Interviews 07.07.2026
Getting to know: Gemma Ungoed-Thomas
Gemma Ungoed-Thomas has spent over two decades performing what she considers “the best and most exciting roles in Government” and for the very first time, she’s ready to talk about it in this exclusive interview with Assured’s Eleanor Dallaway
Interviews 11.12.2025
Getting to Know: Helen Rabe, CISO, BBC
Never has a profile interviewee surprised me as much as Helen. It’s an absolute pleasure to present this excruciatingly candid tell-all with Helen Rabe, CISO, BBC.
Interviews 16.09.2025
Five Minutes With: A Cybersecurity Professor
Kevin Curran is a senior member of IEEE and a Professor of cybersecurity at Ulster University
Blogs & Opinions
Blogs & Opinions 26.03.2026
Why Cyber Essentials Plus Is a Baseline, Not a Safety Net
Certification won’t stop an attack. Leadership, visibility and continuous improvement will.
Blogs & Opinions 26.02.2026
The Cyber Security and Resilience Bill Sets Ambition – Now It Needs Clarity
How to move the dial on national cyber resilience.
Podcasts
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