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The RiskTech Journal
The RiskTech Journal is your premier source for insights on cutting-edge risk management technologies. We deliver expert analysis, industry trends, and practical solutions to help professionals stay ahead in an ever-changing risk landscape. Join us to explore the innovations shaping the future of risk management.
The 2026 Convergence: Integrated Risk Management In a New Era
The 2026 global risk survey cycle marks an inflection point in how risk is understood, prioritized, and operationalized by large organizations. For the first time in several years, leading surveys from Aon, Allianz, the World Economic Forum, Protiviti, PwC, Marsh, Zurich, and Eurasia Group are not merely aligned on top risks, they are aligned on why those risks are proving so difficult to manage with legacy approaches.
Cyber remains the top-ranked risk globally. Geopolitical volatility has become a structural operating condition rather than a periodic shock. Artificial intelligence has moved decisively from emerging concern to material enterprise exposure. Third-party dependency is now treated as a first-order risk category. Across these themes, one signal is clear: risk is no longer behaving as a set of discrete domains. It is behaving as an interconnected system of dependencies, amplifiers, and cascading impacts.
This convergence explains why Integrated Risk Management (IRM) is shifting from an architectural aspiration to an execution requirement.
The Great Risk Revolution—Why GRC Alone Can't Save Your Organization
In boardrooms across the globe, a quiet revolution is underway. Organizations that once viewed risk management primarily through the lens of Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) are discovering—often the hard way—that yesterday's frameworks are increasingly inadequate for today's complex threat landscape.
Consider this. When the World Economic Forum recently surveyed global executives, the most pressing concerns they identified—from AI disruption to supply chain vulnerabilities—weren’t neatly contained within traditional GRC boundaries. These risks cascade across organizational silos, render conventional approaches obsolete, and demand a fundamentally different way of thinking about organizational resilience.