Technology, AI and cyber represent the biggest theme for risk managers in 2025, according to the results of the Airmic Survey 2025, unveiled yesterday at the Airmic annual conference in Liverpool this week.
This theme was followed by geopolitics, emerging risks, natural catastrophes and weather risks and risk financing and the use of captives.
“Recent cyber attacks on retailers in the UK have showed how important it is to have dynamic risk management which defends the organisation from the risk, rather than place an emphasis on the after-effects and response,” the Airmic report stated.
The survey also confirmed that the growing cyber threat, driven by criminals and state actors becoming more sophisticated, has come against a backdrop of organisations struggling with increasing costs due to disruptions to complex global supply chains, geopolitics, regulation and volatility. “Artificial intelligence (AI) provides an opportunity to reduce costs, but it also creates several risks that need to be managed,” the report said.
It also noted that, for respondents operating businesses that depend largely on technology, their sense is that their organisation’s use of…
