Artificial Intelligence is no longer just transforming businesses—it is fundamentally changing the technology risk landscape.

Following a rare warning from the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, governments and security leaders are cautioning that AI is rapidly accelerating cyber capabilities, shrinking vulnerability remediation windows, and creating entirely new governance challenges for organisations.

In this episode of the Technology Risk Podcast, David Horn explores why AI has become the defining technology risk issue of 2026 and how it is reshaping every major risk discipline—from cybersecurity and application security to identity, cloud, third-party risk and operational resilience.

You'll learn:

🔹 Why the Five Eyes warning should concern every board and executive team
🔹 How AI agents are becoming autonomous digital workers—and a new attack surface
🔹 Why identity security is emerging as the most important control in modern organisations
🔹 How AI is accelerating vulnerability discovery and exploitation
🔹 Why cloud resilience now includes AI resilience and concentration risk
🔹 How third-party risk is evolving into ecosystem risk
🔹 Five practical actions every organisation should take to strengthen governance and resilience

Whether you're a CIO, CISO, technology leader, internal auditor, risk professional or board member, this episode provides practical insights into one of the most significant shifts in technology risk management.

Presented by David Horn
Sponsored by CauTix – Technology Risk and Control

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🔐 Identity Security: The Most Important Control You're Probably Not Managing Well Enough

Identity has become the new security perimeter.

In today's cloud-first, AI-enabled world, attackers increasingly don't need to break into organisations—they simply log in. As traditional network boundaries disappear, identity has become the foundation of security, operational resilience and trust.

In this episode of the Technology Risk Podcast, David Horn takes a deep dive into the growing challenges surrounding Identity Security and why it has become one of the most important technology risk topics facing organisations today.

Topics covered include:

✅ Why attackers are increasingly targeting identities rather than vulnerabilities

✅ The risks associated with privilege creep and excessive access

✅ Privileged Access Management and why administrator accounts remain prime targets

✅ Machine identities, service accounts and APIs – the hidden risks many organisations overlook

✅ Third-party access and supplier-related identity risks

✅ The emergence of AI agents and non-human identities

✅ Why identity resilience is becoming a board-level concern

✅ Practical warning signs organisations should look for and actions they can take to strengthen controls

Whether you're a technology leader, CISO, CIO, auditor, risk professional or board member, this episode provides practical insights into one of the most critical control areas in modern organisations.

Presented by David Horn
Sponsored by CauTix – Technology Risk and Control

🎧 Key risks. Real insights. Practical actions you can take.

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Artificial Intelligence is rapidly transforming enterprise operations, but the risk landscape is evolving just as quickly.

This week's Technology Risk Weekly Briefing examines the emergence of AI agents as a significant governance and security challenge, major software supply-chain attacks impacting developers and cloud ecosystems, accelerating vulnerability exploitation driven by AI, and the growing importance of identity resilience as a core operational capability.

Topics covered include:

• AI agents and enterprise governance risks
• AI-driven vulnerability exploitation
• Microsoft-related supply chain compromises
• Identity resilience and cyber recovery
• Cloud and software ecosystem risks
• Operational resilience lessons for technology leaders

Sponsored by CAUTIX — helping organisations strengthen technology risk management, operational resilience, and digital trust.