In this episode of The Bookshelf Edit, Farah explores It’s Not in the Manual: Real-World Leadership for Security and Risk Professionals by Michael Gips. She unpacks the book’s core themes - including leadership without clear rules, managing risk rather than “solving” it, and how leaders operate when frameworks fall short - and explains why these insights matter for today’s security and risk professionals.

Sunday 11/01/2026

In a week defined by the U.S. extraction of Maduro, the formalisation of China’s "Electrostate" mandates, and the continued erosion of order in the West Bank and Iran, the global risk landscape is shifting in real-time. We provide a pragmatic analysis of the top stories currently rewriting the security playbook for 2026.

As deepfake-enabled fraud becomes more automated, scalable, and sophisticated, organisations are being forced to rethink how they approach trust, verification, and human risk. In this Security Trends for 2026 Q&A, Aarti Samani examines why deepfakes are no longer a niche technology threat, how social engineering and broken processes are being exploited at scale, and what real resilience looks like in an era of autonomous fraud.