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Navigating cyber threats in construction
- 28 Nov 2025
- Maritz Cloete
- ICAEW
The construction sector’s rapid move towards digital tools, remote access and cloud collaboration has widened its exposure to cyber threats. Construction firms rely heavily on technology to manage projects, yet many still have limited cyber maturity. The combination of tight deadlines, multiple stakeholders and high-value contracts makes the impact of any disruption especially severe.
Foreign and AI threats grow
- 28 Nov 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
Cyber espionage and foreign threats were a big topic this month, as the UK continues to focus on beefing up its national security and the resilience of critical infrastructure, operations and services.
Stay up to date with ICAEW podcasts
- 17 Nov 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
Are you really prepared for a cyber attack? Should we compensate whistleblowers? What is coming in the Finance Bill? Stay in the loop on accountancy’s hot topics with podcasts from the ICAEW.
International Trade Week: How volatile geopolitics is affecting customs compliance
- 05 Nov 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
SMEs must include measures to comply with the world’s complex web of trade rules in their risk-management control environment, says a senior economist.
How do you become cyber certified?
- 31 Oct 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
There are several standards and certifications for businesses to follow when it comes to cyber security. What are they, and how do you get the certifications?
Cyber resilience strategy: how to create and stress test a plan
- 30 Oct 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
Increasingly seen as a vital component of a company’s trustworthiness, a cyber resilience plan must be tailored to the nature of the business and be easy to put into action.
Can you operate without your IT?
- 30 Oct 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
As we come to the end of Cyber Security Awareness Month, our regular monthly cyber round-up explores the big stories and highlights news you may have missed.
ICAEW member insights October 2025: mixed bag for manufacturing
- 30 Oct 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
Members expressed views in line with the latest Business Confidence Monitor results, though there were some small positive signs in specific sectors.
Navigating MTD: cyber threats, insurance, and practical protection
- 28 Oct 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
As Making Tax Digital (MTD) for Income Tax approaches, ICAEW’s Professional Standards Team is encouraging members to review their risk management and insurance arrangements.
How AI agents can aid cyber criminals
- 27 Oct 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
AI technologies are becoming increasingly autonomous, but this brings added cybersecurity risk. How can we protect ourselves?
Cyber attackers: who’s targeting you?
- 23 Oct 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
A leading cyber security expert presents a spotters’ guide of attacker types that businesses must defend themselves against.
How to make multifactor authentication work for your organisation
- 22 Oct 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
One of the most vital cyber defences a business can deploy is multifactor authentication (MFA) for system logins. A security expert tells us what a strong MFA policy should look like.
How do you make cyber training stick?
- 21 Oct 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
If cyber security training is to be relevant and effective, business owners and organisation leaders must ensure that it is specifically tailored to how their companies work and the risks they face on any given day.
Recovering from a cyber attack: Microlise
- 20 Oct 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
When fleet management company Microlise suffered a major cyber attack, CEO Nadeem Raza says that swift action was taken, but the incident served as an important learning experience for the whole team.
Accountants can ‘change corporate dial’ on cyber as threats intensify
- 17 Oct 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
Finance professionals’ role as trusted advisers puts them in a strong position to influence senior teams on the importance of addressing the growing cyber threat landscape.
The seven essentials of a good cyber strategy
- 15 Oct 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
Businesses can draw upon a range of recognised standards to lay the foundations of a cyber strategy – but keeping your organisation secure doesn’t stop there. Cyber security and GDPR consultant Paul Rolison outlines best practice measures for creating an effective cyber strategy.
Failure to prevent fraud: who's liable
- 15 Oct 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
The failure to prevent fraud offence, part of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA), came into force in September 2025, bringing organisations into liability.
Four cyber security lessons from M&S and other breaches
- 15 Oct 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
With so many more high-profile cyber attacks taking place, it pays to learn from others’ experiences. What can you learn from attacks such as the one on M&S?
Everything you needed to know about cyber insurance
- 14 Oct 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
Cyber insurance has never been more crucial for businesses. Here’s a guide to what you should be looking out for when choosing a provider.
Hackers almost breached this firm’s systems. Here’s what they learned
- 13 Oct 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
Security experts at a mid-tier audit firm knew they had to act swiftly when they discovered an attempt on their own system, in which their servers were almost breached by cyber criminals, and used it as a lesson to bolster their own security and training across the business.
Courage, control, and clarity: redefining risk mitigation strategies
- 09 Oct 2025
- Kristina Kopic
- ICAEW
- Charity Community Newsletter
The Charity Commission’s Charity Sector Risk Assessment 2025 paints a challenging picture: squeezed finances, increasing fraud and cyber threats, governance weaknesses, safeguarding concerns, and a shifting reputational landscape. For finance leaders and finance trustees, it’s a clear signal that your financial and analytical skills are more vital than ever.
Cyber attacks cause disruption and bankruptcy fears
- 30 Sep 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
This month's cyber round-up covers large-scale attacks causing significant disruption and supply chain bankruptcy risks. We also look at the growing prevalence of insider threats in schools, and how AI enables malicious activities.
Stay safe in the digital era: password security
- 25 Sep 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
Despite the increasing risk of serious data breaches and cyberattacks, many organisations fall at the first hurdle, with poor password security opening the door to cybercriminals. We offer advice on making passwords more secure.
How to keep HMRC agent account details safe
- 23 Sep 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
ICAEW’s Tax Faculty looks at the key points from recent HMRC guidance, including the latest Agent Update, on how to protect agent accounts from phishing and other scams.
Cyber security biggest risk as businesses reel from major attacks
- 23 Sep 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
Annual poll of Chief Internal Auditors highlights cyber security as the number one risk, with digital threats intensifying following attacks on European airports over the weekend and recent cyber breaches at M&S, the Co-op, Harrods, The North Face and Jaguar Land Rover.
Trusted AI assurance roadmap outlines three quality assurance models
- 16 Sep 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
The government’s plan for developing the AI assurance market includes proposals for certification and developing a framework for skills.
Cyber roundup: the dangers of spoofing
- 28 Aug 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
Spoofing exposes Sharepoint vulnerabilities; MoD data breach; and the devastating consequences of one weak password.
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Quantum risk mitigation roadmap
- 10 Aug 2025
- Derya Karli, Sirius Quantum Solutions
- ICAEW
The quantum threat is not a distant concern, it is a present strategic imperative that requires systematic preparation.
Cyber: key lessons from the recent hacks and breaches
- 31 Jul 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
This month’s cyber-security round-up covers major cyber attacks causing financial losses and data breaches, highlights the risks of poor data protection, stresses the need for strong cyber-security culture and reviews artificial intelligence-driven cyber-security advances.
Cyber Action Plan for the UK
- 30 Jun 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
Cyber security round-up: this month’s bulletin brings the latest developments in recent high-profile cyber attacks, news of a significant focus on cyber from the government, and highlights recent fraudulent activities surrounding HMRC and winter fuel payments.
Businesses face uphill battle on cyber threat awareness
- 26 Jun 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
The vast number of companies affected by ransomware attacks highlights the urgent need to ramp up educational work on cybercrime, according to a Fraud Advisory Panel trustee.
Free CPD: Building cybercrime resilience
- 05 Jun 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
Following a string of high-profile cyber attacks, protection is a priority for accountancy firms. This CPD-verifiable content will provide insights and practical help in the ongoing fight against cybercrime.
Retail attacks put cyber security in the spotlight
- 29 May 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
This month’s cyber round-up looks at additional lessons to be learned following the cyber attack on M&S.
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Resilience of banking technology: the bad, the good and the future
- 28 May 2025
- Simon Gibbs
- ICAEW
Barclays’ customers recently suffered the inconvenience that comes with digital banking, when the technology fails. And for which the bank will pay out £12.5m in compensation.
What to learn from the M&S and Co-op cyber attacks
- 20 May 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
Recent hacks against some of the UK’s biggest retailers send a strong message to every sector, according to representatives of ICAEW’s Tech Faculty Board.
Build resilience against fraud and cybercrime
- 30 Apr 2025
- Kristina Kopic
- ICAEW
- Charity Community Newsletter
Charities play a vital role in society, often operating on tight budgets while delivering essential services to communities. Yet this very trust can make them attractive targets for fraudsters and cybercriminals. In an increasingly digital world, improving resilience to fraud and cybercrime is not just a technical necessity — it’s fundamental to protecting beneficiaries, safeguarding donations, and preserving public trust.
Cyber security: fake payments, receipts and invoices on the rise
- 30 Apr 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
April cyber round-up: new technologies are creating new threats. Here’s how accountants can guard against them.
Sprinting towards AI regulation in financial services
- 29 Apr 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
Moves to regulate artificial intelligence are progressing. Following a competitive selection process, ICAEW’s Polly Tsang participated in the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) inaugural AI Sprint. She talks us through the process.
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Comparing the CDO and CFO in the modern enterprise
- 28 Apr 2025
- Craig Stirk
- ICAEW
In an era where data can rival capital as the most valuable corporate asset, two C-suite roles have emerged as strategic cornerstones of enterprise decision-making – the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and the Chief Data Officer (CDO). As organisations grapple with digital transformation, regulatory pressures and the latest AI hype cycle, understanding the distinction and interplay between these roles is more critical than ever.
Government issues new cyber governance code
- 09 Apr 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
The latest guidance for businesses aims to shore up cyber defences, following a consultation last year.
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E-invoicing: digital revolution or compliance hurdle?
- 03 Apr 2025
- ICAEW
- ICAEW
- Taxline
Ed Saltmarsh breaks down the government’s consultation on e-invoicing and what it could mean for UK businesses.
Quality of large company cyber disclosures lacking, study finds
- 28 Mar 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
Research highlights concerns about the fine line between quality reporting on cyber threats and placing information in the public domain that could be used as the basis of a cyber attack.
Cyber round-up: New frontiers for security
- 27 Mar 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
This month’s cyber bulletin explores the latest in cyber security, looking at how the landscape is changing, with shifting geopolitical alliances and technology advancements, and many organisations still needing to get the basics right.
National efforts to build cyber resilience and secure AI
- 27 Feb 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
This month's cyber round-up covers key information on recent policy developments and new initiatives in the UK focused on enhancing cyber resilience and securing AI. Learn more about how this will protect and support businesses, and what guidance is available.
Cyber security: outlook for 2025
- 30 Jan 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
Cyber resilience is a key concern for governments, with many exploring ways to address the cyber threat and promote national resilience. What is the outlook for 2025?
How to guard against voice cloning and deepfake scams
- 15 Jan 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
As voice and image fraud becomes rapidly more sophisticated, Cyber Security Professor Oli Buckley outlines the current state of the problem and provides some countermeasures.
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Integrating Regulatory Obligations within an Internal Audit Plan
- 02 Jan 2025
- Carolyn Clarke, Internal Audit Community Subject Matter Expert
- ICAEW
Companies face heightened expectations from a range of stakeholders. The risk landscape is increasingly complex. All organisations face external and unpredictable challenges, including geopolitical and cyber-security risks, as well as the unprecedented development of new technologies, including AI.
November cyber round-up
- 28 Nov 2024
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
This month we look at criminals’ latest techniques, the 10th birthday of Cyber Essentials, fraud risk in the utilities sector, and how an artificial intelligence grandmother has joined the fight against cybercrime.
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Cybercrime and the impact on the legal sector
- 27 Nov 2024
- Nicci Barlow
- ICAEW
- Solicitors Community Newsletter
Cybercrime is expected to cost £8.5 trillion globally by 2025, highlighting the scale and sophistication of the cyber ecosystem. With the legal sector reportedly accounting for over 24% of global cyber-attacks, how can firms protect themselves from the ever-evolving cybercriminal?
Free CPD: Cyber security
- 20 Nov 2024
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
Cybercrime continues to be a major threat to businesses and it’s not enough to just invest in protective technology. Update your knowledge on this ever-evolving topic with this free CPD-verifiable content.
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