Health care is putting AI agents into production faster than it can govern them. Most of the conversation about AI agent incident response stops at the front door: who gets access, with what credentials, for how long. That work matters. It is also the easy half. The harder question is what your organization does after …
The Response Window Just Collapsed. Your Crisis Plan Still Assumes Days.
Anthropic published its September 2026 threat intelligence report last month. It documents eight months of AI misuse the company detected and shut down on its own platform. Most of the coverage, including CyberScoop’s, focused on the headline: lone operators now run campaigns that used to require a state intelligence service. That is true. It is …
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The AI Labs Just Warned You About AI-Enabled Cyber Attacks. Here Is What They Left Out.
Last week, OpenAI and Anthropic signed the same letter. So did Microsoft, Google, AWS, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Mastercard, Visa, AT&T, and more than a hundred other organizations. The letter, A Call for Collective Action on Cyber Defense, says AI-enabled cyber attacks “will become far more widespread and sophisticated” in the coming months, and that …
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A Return-to-Office Mandate Is a Tell About Your Leadership, Not Your Strategy
Here is the uncomfortable finding most CEOs will skip past this week. New research from Wharton, published in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, analyzed six years of data to understand why some leaders defend remote and hybrid work while others kill it. The researchers surveyed thousands of executives, managers, and supervisors across a long …
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The Resilience Maturity Gap Isn’t a Software Problem
Fusion Risk Management just published five years of market data, and buried inside it is an admission you rarely hear from a software company: the tools are not the constraint. Adoption is. The Enterprise Resilience Report draws on 4,571 intake conversations with 1,765 organizations evaluating resilience software between 2021 and 2025. It is vendor data …
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Executive Buy-In for Business Continuity: Being Liked Is Not the Same as Being Believed
Your CEO probably likes you. That is not the same as believing your program pays for itself. Two recent research studies about chief marketing officers explain this gap better than anything published in our own field, and they explain why executive buy-in for business continuity keeps eroding even when the relationship with leadership feels strong. …
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Your Crisis Decision History Is a Single Point of Failure
Hour three of a ransomware response. Someone on the call says what someone always says. “Didn’t we work through this in the spring?” They did. There was a tabletop in April that ran this exact scenario. The team reached a decision on the payment question, wrote down the criteria, and named who owned the call. …
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Crisis Leadership When the Playbook Fails: Dutch Leonard’s Framework, Six Years Later
In March 2020, days into the first COVID-19 lockdowns, Harvard Business School put Professor Dutch Leonard on its Managing Through Crisis webcast to answer the question every executive was suddenly asking: how do you lead when nobody knows what to do? I recently went back and rewatched that conversation. Six years on, it is the …
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