Cyber This Week Edition 115 — Trust Is Built Before the Crisis

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When AI uncovers a decade-old vulnerability: The PHP2Shell wake-up call

Two critical weaknesses, known together as PHP2Shell, have been identified in PHP, technology widely used to support websites, online applications and commercial and open-source products. That means your business could be exposed even if you don’t knowingly use PHP.

Insurance Business

Your clients think cyber covers their AI risk. Most of the time, it doesn't

AI is a technology, not a peril, so losses may fall under cyber, tech E&O, D&O, EPL, or media liability. Two misconceptions run in opposite directions: no affirmative AI wording does not always mean no cover, and affirmative wording does not guarantee comprehensive cover.

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3 Frameworks to Protect CISOs & Orgs Against AI Liability

Three defensive tools: a five-factor AI deployment risk score (potential harm, data and rights, autonomy, evidence gap, vendor dependence), documented board risk-appetite decisions, and an AI incident-response checklist preserving system state and chain of custody. CISOs has to negotiate log access, model snapshots, liability caps, and dispute terms into vendor contracts, since evidence rights end once signed. Regulators and litigators will assess the evidence an organisation can produce, not its framework alignment.

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Edition#114·

Security Does Not End at the Gate.

10 articles on TLS certificate trust, operational technology, PHP scanning, continuous authentication, AI governance and cyber insurance.

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Edition#113·

Weak Controls. Wider Consequences.

10 articles on ransomware controls, verified patching, AI agent security, connected infrastructure and integrated cyber risk.

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Edition#112·

Risk Reaches Further. Readiness Must Keep Up.

10 articles on AI-driven incidents, cyber resilience, supply-chain testing, AI governance, security evidence and wider executive risk.

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