Insights
The cyber landscape never stops shifting – and neither should your perspective. Our Insights bring you expert commentary, thought leadership and practical guidance on the issues shaping the alternative investments sector. Stay ahead of regulators, satisfy investors, and strengthen your resilience with analysis from the team that knows your world best.
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Heightened Risk of AI-Enabled Voice Phishing Attacks Targeting Financial Services Organizations
Drawbridge Advisory Notice Executive Summary Our Advisory Team is monitoring reports of a series of sophisticated cyberattack attempts targeting major Wall Street investment firms, including Two Sigma, Citadel, Point72 Asset Management, and several private equity organizations (ref: Two Sigma, Citadel, Point72 Targeted in Sophisticated Wall Street Cyber Attacks – Bloomberg) . According to public reporting,…
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The Safest Path Forward Isn’t Blocking AI
The Challenge Blocking AI isn’t a strategy. The productivity benefits are too compelling. Employees will continue experimenting with new tools and new capabilities will continue emerging. The question isn’t whether AI should be used. It’s whether firms understand how it is being used. Historically, cybersecurity focused on attackers outside the walls. Tomorrow’s risk may originate…
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Every Prompt Has a Destination
The Challenge Every prompt creates a data journey. Employees are increasingly using AI to summarize notes, draft emails, analyze spreadsheets and automate repetitive tasks. But many organizations haven’t stopped to consider what happens after someone presses Enter. Information doesn’t simply disappear. It is processed, stored and managed somewhere. Historically, firms focused on governing email, cloud…
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Innovation Requires Boundaries
The Challenge Many organizations assume governance slows innovation. In reality, the opposite is true. Without clear ownership, acceptable use policies and defined responsibilities, employees are left to make their own decisions. That creates inconsistency, uncertainty and unnecessary risk. The firms moving fastest with AI are often the firms with the clearest rules. Because confidence encourages…
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AI Readiness: Never Confuse Adoption with Readiness
The Challenge AI adoption is accelerating. But adoption and readiness are not the same thing.Many firms can say they are using AI. Far fewer can explain where it is being used, which tools are approved, what information is being shared, or who owns oversight. AI is creating a cyber problem. But it is creating an…
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Visibility Precedes Control
The Challenge Organizations cannot govern what they cannot see. AI adoption is happening organically. Employees are experimenting with tools, workflows are changing and information is flowing through systems that leadership may not even know exist. Shadow AI is becoming the latest blind spot. Why It Matters Historically, cybersecurity focused on external threats.Today, some of the…
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The humble phish has changed: why AI-enabled social engineering matters for hedge funds and private equity
By Simon Eyre For years, phishing training taught people to look for poor grammar, strange email addresses and suspicious links. That model is becoming outdated.Latest reports confirm what many security teams are already seeing. Phishing is no longer a crude numbers game. It has become a highly targeted, AI-assisted operation designed to exploit trust, familiarity…
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Real Deals PE Live 2026: Cybersecurity that matters
Drawbridge was pleased to sponsor and attend Real Deals PE Live 2026, alongside leaders from across the private equity ecosystem, to explore a question that’s becoming hard to ignore: what does “cybersecurity that matters” look like in practice, and what is it really worth? The day underlined a shift we’re seeing more often in deals…
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Why AI risk is now a core part of cyber risk
AI is reshaping the cyber risk landscape Cyber risk has long been recognized as a critical issue for alternative investment firms. It affects operational resilience, investor confidence and, increasingly, valuation and deal outcomes.Artificial intelligence is now reshaping that risk landscape. The introduction of AI does not necessarily change the systems firms rely on. Instead, it…
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AI adoption is outpacing governance in alternative investments
AI is already embedded in day-to-day workflows Artificial intelligence is already embedded across the alternative investment industry. From research and due diligence to operational workflows and investor communications, AI tools are being adopted at pace – often informally and without central oversight. This is not unusual. Most technological shifts begin at the edges of an…
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Low Lift, High Value: Making Cyber Oversight Work Across the Portfolio
By Eric Bernstein, CEO, Drawbridge Cyber risk now sits firmly on the private equity agenda. PE firms understand that a vulnerability at a single portfolio company can quickly become a fund-level issue, affecting valuation, investor confidence and exit outcomes. Yet some firms still hesitate to implement portfolio-wide cyber oversight for one simple reason: they assume…
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Using cyber analytics to drive action across the portfolio
By Eric Bernstein, CEO, Drawbridge Cyber risk has become a defining factor in how private equity firms protect value, manage portfolios and demonstrate governance to investors. Yet for many PE sponsors, cyber oversight remains fragmented, reactive or difficult to scale across multiple portfolio companies. In this three-part series, we explore how portfolio-level cyber analytics are…
