The Risk Letters

The weekly opinionated cyber risk brief

One opinionated brief every week — a trusted advisor's call on what matters, why it matters to leaders, and what to do about it.

Not a feed. Not a dashboard. Board-ready judgement, written in plain language, so the people who set strategy can read it before the week begins.

What we believe

01 A view, not a feed — a trusted advisor with an opinion. We make the call on what matters this week — and stand behind it — instead of handing you raw data to sort yourself.
02 Recommendations, not summaries — every brief ends in decisions, not data. If we can't tell you what to do about it, it doesn't make the brief.
03 Board-ready clarity — written for the people who set strategy. Plain language, estimative judgement with probability and confidence — no jargon, no CVE soup.
04 Transparency of method — we show our sources and explain our reasoning, and never present AI-assisted analysis as human insight without disclosure.

How your brief gets made

Every week you get a single, sharp call on the week in cyber risk. Enough has happened to warrant a fresh view, and it is short enough to actually get read.

Through the week

Watch

We track what actually moves the picture — major incidents, exploitation that has crossed from theory to practice, regulatory shifts, and the campaigns leaders will be asked about.

Weekend

Judge

We separate the noise from the few developments that change the strategic call. The work is editorial: what does this mean for decision-makers, and how confident are we?

Weekly

Deliver

One opinionated brief lands in your inbox: the bottom line up front, the reasoning behind it, prioritised recommendations, and what we expect next — with probability and confidence.

Every brief includes

01 Bottom line — the call, up front. What matters this week and what it means for leadership, in a sentence or two, before any of the detail.
02 Current conditions — what is actually happening, in plain prose. The developments worth a decision-maker's attention, named in terms of products and impact rather than identifiers.
03 Background — why it matters, and how it connects to the weeks before. Context that turns a headline into a judgement.
04 Recommendations — opinionated, prioritised actions. Not "patch your systems" — but what we would do, in what order, and why.
05 Predictions — what we expect next, with probability bands and confidence levels, so you can plan against a view rather than a guess.

One brief. Two licenses.

The same weekly opinionated cyber risk brief — free for individual research, licensed for commercial and team use.

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For researchers, students, academics and non-profits. The full brief, for non-commercial use.

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€39/mo · €390/yr

For companies and commercial use. The same brief with a commercial licence, invoicing and EU VAT handling.

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