When Compliance Isn’t Resilience
A recovery test can pass without proving recovery. How compliance evidence gets overstated, and what leaders should ask before trusting a green status.
Decision Integrity
Your AI Agent Can Place the Order. Who Said It Could?
Before an AI agent places orders or sends messages, define what it may commit, who grants that authority and how to test the boundary.
Waiting for Certainty Has a Cost. Who Owns It?
A review of SVB’s supervision found inaction felt personally safer. How to price deferred decisions, assign owners and fix unclear decision rights.
Your Firm Was in the Exercise. What Did It Change?
A sector cloud outage exercise proves participation, not improvement. What boards should ask for afterward: actions, owners, dates and a test for progress.
The AI Council Stopped Meeting. Nobody Noticed.
GAO found DOD’s Responsible AI council stopped meeting for months and lacks a charter. How to build AI governance that keeps running and signals when it stops.
When Recovery Testing Does Not Prove Recovery
A disaster recovery test can pass while the business’s ability to recover stays unproven. How to scope, test, and report what a recovery test actually proved.
Your Model Inventory Doesn’t Know When Your Model Retires
AI providers publish model retirement dates and notice periods, and they can differ by channel. What your AI inventory should record to act in time.
AI Inherits the Organization It Finds
AI reasons from the organizational picture it is given. Readiness means testing that picture against the actual work before expanding its use.
The Examiner Won’t Write It Up. Who Decides It’s Too Small?
A new OCC and FDIC rule narrows matters requiring attention from November 2, 2026. How banks should record materiality decisions and board visibility.
The System Is Back. Is the Business?
Connect RTO and RPO targets to business acceptance conditions, recovered data integrity and evidence of usable service recovery.