Our AI Industry Exposure Index maps ten UK industries against two measures: how many businesses within each industry use artificial intelligence, and how many organisations in each industry have a board member responsible for cyber security – to show one…

Cyber Security Awareness Month puts cyber security firmly in the spotlight. At Acora, we’ve used October to reinforce the everyday behaviours that help build a stronger security culture, from training and awareness to practical conversations across our teams. But those…

Why Is AI Governance Getting Weaker, While AI Adoption Accelerates? IBM’s 2026 Cost of a Data Breach report shows that 68% of 602 businesses analysed lacked an artificial intelligence (AI) governance policy to manage AI and prevent shadow AI at…

Everyone in your organisation has already adopted AI. Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, and (stay with me) Voicemod, the app that can make your colleague sound like Barry White mid-Teams call. Funny until you remember it’s also the tech behind a growing…

Is your business prepared to shut down an AI agent if things go out of control? In July 2026, during a routine security assessment, Britain’s AI Security Institute (AISI) detected a few Anthropic and OpenAI agents autonomously creating fake online…

2026: DORA’s Compliance Deadline Has Passed, But the Real Pressure Has Just Begun While January 2025 marked the official deadline for the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), 2026 has opened the door to a new set of challenges that demand…