What should be on your risk radar for the rest of the year?

3 November 2026

What should be on your risk radar for the rest of the year?

As organisations look to the months ahead, one theme is clear: risk is becoming more connected, more immediate, and harder to manage in isolation.

Our recent risk management webinar, What should be on your risk radar for the rest of the year?, brought together a wide range of topics shaping the risk landscape - from employment law reform and cyber resilience to fire safety, fleet risk, and the growing importance of continuous compliance.

But the risks demanding attention right now are not single issues, but an interconnected set of pressures that can disrupt operations, affect people, and weaken resilience if they are not identified early.

Catch up on the webinar.

The risks appearing most often on risk radars

We highlighted a broad set of risk themes currently front of mind for organisations, including:

Geopolitical conflict
Tensions between states continue to create uncertainty for supply chains, trade, energy security, and business continuity.
Artificial intelligence
AI is creating major opportunity, but also introducing new exposures around cybercrime, misinformation, governance, and operational disruption.
Pandemic preparedness
While the immediate memory of COVID-19 may be fading, the need to remain ready for future health shocks has not gone away.
Cyber security
Cyber risk remains one of the most urgent threats, with attackers becoming faster, more adaptive, and more difficult to detect.
Operational risks
Disruption caused by process failure, people issues, system breakdowns, or control gaps remains a persistent concern.
Natural resources
Access to energy, water, raw materials, and critical inputs continues to influence resilience and cost.
Economic and tariff pressures
Inflation, market volatility, trade barriers, and tariff changes can affect margins, procurement, and competitiveness.
Climate and extreme weather
Severe weather events, flooding, and longer-term climate impacts are increasingly affecting assets, people, and operations.
Supply chain disruption
Interdependence across suppliers, logistics, and third parties continues to expose businesses to interruption risk.
Fire and flood
Physical property risks remain highly relevant, especially where operational resilience depends on a single site or key location.
Fleet risk
Fleet risk is evolving quickly, with greater scrutiny on compliance, driver behaviour, evidence management, and incident response.
Business disruption
Whether caused by cyber, weather, supply chain failure, or operational breakdown, business interruption remains a core concern.

Why these risks matter together

One of the clearest messages is that these risks no longer sit neatly in separate boxes. A cyber event can trigger business interruption. Severe weather can disrupt supply chains. Geopolitical tension can reshape trade flows and operational planning. AI can amplify both opportunity and exposure.

That means resilience is not just about protecting against one large event. It is about understanding how risks interact, where exposures sit, and how quickly an organisation can respond when things go wrong.

From insurance-first to risk-first

What’s clear is the need for an important shift in thinking: you shouldn’t start with insurance alone. Before insurance placement, the basics of risk management matter. Leaders need clarity on:

what is at risk,
what the organisation’s risk appetite is,
how risks are being assessed and communicated,
and where resilience plans are needed for risks that cannot be fully transferred.

This approach helps businesses make better choices about where to insure, where to mitigate, and where to build stronger operational resilience.

Cyber remains a major priority

Cyber is no longer just a technology issue. It is a financial, operational, legal, and governance issue.

Attackers are changing their tactics, with unpatched vulnerabilities now overtaking stolen credentials as a leading route into organisations. At the same time, the cost of a breach remains significant, especially where business interruption, third-party dependency, and regulatory exposure come into play.

The message is clear: preparation, testing, and quantification can materially reduce impact when an incident occurs.

The importance of preparedness in people, property, and fleet

Practical risk areas where day-to-day controls matter include:

Fire risks linked to e-bikes, scooters, vapes, and lithium-ion batteries
Regulatory changes affecting plug-in solar panels
Fleet risk moving from policy to proof, with greater emphasis on continuous compliance, evidence, and coaching

These are reminders that resilience is built through consistent action, not just crisis response.

Risk Passport: your gateway to smarter risk management

For organisations wanting continuous visibility and practical support, Risk Passport is designed to help businesses stay ahead of emerging risks throughout the year.

It combines expert access, webinars, training, guidance, and self-serve tools to help organisations better understand their risk profile and identify priority actions.

If you would like to discuss how our Risk Passport solution can help you, or to arrange a demo, contact Julianna Forsyth.

Staying ahead of the year’s risks

The risk environment is active, connected, and changing fast. The organisations that are best prepared will be those that take a broad view of exposure, strengthen resilience before an event occurs, and connect risk management across people, operations, technology, and assets.

If you are reviewing your own risk radar for the rest of the year, the key question is not just what could happen? It is also how prepared are we to respond when it does?