As organisations adopt new technology and connect more systems, cybercriminals are adapting at a similar pace. AI can help businesses strengthen security and detect threats earlier, but it also gives attackers new ways to automate attacks and enhance social engineering.

Cybersecurity, however, is no longer purely an IT issue. As more people, systems and data become digitally connected, a weakness in one area can create risk elsewhere in the organisation.

Cyber risks can hide in everyday business processes

Ransomware, cyberespionage and other forms of cybercrime remain significant threats. According to the ENISA Threat Landscape 2026, geopolitical developments, AI and the growing interconnectedness of digital ecosystems are continuing to shape the cyber threat landscape. [1]

Organisations need to understand where vulnerabilities can emerge across their people, systems, data and external dependencies. As these become more interconnected, maintaining a clear view of activity across the organisation becomes more difficult. Gaps in that view can create blind spots, making unusual activity harder to recognise.

Organisations can improve their ability to recognise when something is wrong

What you can’t see is harder to respond to

No organisation can eliminate every cyber risk, but organisations can improve their ability to recognise when something is wrong. Visibility therefore plays an important role in cyber resilience: the better the view across activities, systems and processes, the easier it is to spot anomalies that may require attention.

Some of those blind spots may exist in areas that are not immediately associated with cyber security. Payments are one example: they connect people, systems and data. How they are managed can influence the level of insight and control an organisation has over employee spending.

Could the way your employees pay create a blind spot?

A lot of employees need to spend money to do their jobs. But how they pay can affect when that activity becomes visible to the organisation. When an employee uses a personal card for a business expense, the transaction may only become visible to the organisation once the expense is reported.

With centrally managed corporate cards, organisations can gain greater visibility of transaction activity, together with controls over how cards are used.

Corporate cards do not eliminate cyber risk. However, the way payments are managed can affect what an organisation can see and how quickly potential issues can be identified.

This raises some important questions:

• Do employees still use their personal cards for business expenses?
• When does corporate spending become visible to your organisation?
• Would unusual card activity become visible early enough to investigate?
• How quickly could you respond if a corporate card was lost or compromised?

These may sound like payment questions. But they are also questions about visibility, control and preparedness.

Know your blind spots

Cyber resilience is not about eliminating every risk. It is about having the visibility, controls and readiness to recognise when something is wrong and respond effectively.

For business leaders, that means taking a broader view of cybersecurity and considering where vulnerabilities and blind spots may exist across the organisation. As threats continue to evolve, one principle remains clear:

You can’t respond effectively to what you can’t see.

Source: [1] European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA), ENISA Threat Landscape 2026, published 22 September 2026.