Industry Insider

  • Dark Data Emerges as Agentic AI Bottleneck

    AI systems in the average large organisation can reach just 45 per cent of company data. In financial services that figure falls to 33 per cent, and in healthcare to 40 per cent. The numbers come from Scaling AI Agents with Trustworthy Data, an MIT Technology Review Insights report sponsored by Google Cloud. It draws on a global survey of 300 senior executives. 

  • UK Police Database Leak Hits All 43 Forces

    A breach has exposed the names, employing organisations and work email addresses of more than 100,000 UK police and criminal justice staff. It appears to have required no malware and no zero-day. A misconfigured permission on a public-facing web portal is the reported cause.

  • Secured Signing Targets Deepfake Swaps

    A digital signer can clear identity verification at the start of a remote witnessing session and be replaced before the document is executed. Secured Signing has released the ID Trust Console, which re-tests the person on screen throughout a video signing meeting rather than once at the door.

  • Copilot overhaul after weak global adoption

    Microsoft is undertaking the biggest restructuring of its Copilot strategy since it began embedding OpenAI's technology across its software three years ago, a move triggered by leaked internal figures showing that very few of its commercial customers pay for the assistant or use it regularly.

  • Elastic And OpenAI Target Unstructured Data

    Elastic has expanded its collaboration with OpenAI to help organisations build production AI applications that draw on their own enterprise data. For organisations that deploy the two together, Elasticsearch acts as the retrieval and governance layer feeding OpenAI's reasoning models.

  • Attackers Weaponise Copilot in Controlled Test

    A single compromised email account, paired with an AI assistant, can be escalated into chief executive impersonation and a $250,000 wire transfer scam. A controlled attack by Barracuda's red team has shown how.

  • Victorian Councils' Widening AI Governance Gap

    Almost two thirds of Victorian local government officers are using artificial intelligence without clear governance behind them, a new survey has found. The gap exposes councils to privacy, accountability and compliance risk.

  • IBM Finds AI Reshaping Breach Economics

    One in four malicious data breaches over the past year was AI-enabled, and those breaches cost an average of US$6 million, about US$1 million more than the global average.

  • UK Retreats on Digital ID Card

    The UK government has abandoned its controversial national digital ID card, with reports that incoming prime minister Andy Burnham is dropping the scheme announced by the previous administration. Savings will be redirected to a tax cut aimed at lowering household electricity bills. https://insight.scmagazineuk.com/news-briefs/uk-government-scraps-controversial-digital-id-card-scheme

  • Dark Data Emerges as Agentic AI Bottleneck

    AI systems in the average large organisation can reach just 45 per cent of company data. In financial services that figure falls to 33 per cent, and in healthcare to 40 per cent. The numbers come from Scaling AI Agents with Trustworthy Data, an MIT Technology Review Insights report sponsored by Google Cloud. It draws on a global survey of 300 senior executives. 

  • UK Police Database Leak Hits All 43 Forces

    A breach has exposed the names, employing organisations and work email addresses of more than 100,000 UK police and criminal justice staff. It appears to have required no malware and no zero-day. A misconfigured permission on a public-facing web portal is the reported cause.

  • Secured Signing Targets Deepfake Swaps

    A digital signer can clear identity verification at the start of a remote witnessing session and be replaced before the document is executed. Secured Signing has released the ID Trust Console, which re-tests the person on screen throughout a video signing meeting rather than once at the door.

  • Copilot overhaul after weak global adoption

    Microsoft is undertaking the biggest restructuring of its Copilot strategy since it began embedding OpenAI's technology across its software three years ago, a move triggered by leaked internal figures showing that very few of its commercial customers pay for the assistant or use it regularly.

  • Elastic And OpenAI Target Unstructured Data

    Elastic has expanded its collaboration with OpenAI to help organisations build production AI applications that draw on their own enterprise data. For organisations that deploy the two together, Elasticsearch acts as the retrieval and governance layer feeding OpenAI's reasoning models.

  • Attackers Weaponise Copilot in Controlled Test

    A single compromised email account, paired with an AI assistant, can be escalated into chief executive impersonation and a $250,000 wire transfer scam. A controlled attack by Barracuda's red team has shown how.

  • Victorian Councils' Widening AI Governance Gap

    Almost two thirds of Victorian local government officers are using artificial intelligence without clear governance behind them, a new survey has found. The gap exposes councils to privacy, accountability and compliance risk.

  • IBM Finds AI Reshaping Breach Economics

    One in four malicious data breaches over the past year was AI-enabled, and those breaches cost an average of US$6 million, about US$1 million more than the global average.

  • UK Retreats on Digital ID Card

    The UK government has abandoned its controversial national digital ID card, with reports that incoming prime minister Andy Burnham is dropping the scheme announced by the previous administration. Savings will be redirected to a tax cut aimed at lowering household electricity bills. https://insight.scmagazineuk.com/news-briefs/uk-government-scraps-controversial-digital-id-card-scheme