"Someone online shows a 'trick' that feels harmless at first. Then the community pulls you in. Everyone's doing it. It feels like skill, not crime."

A young person from South Africa, describing how their peers slide into cybercrime.

41% of CISOs said an audio deepfake targeted their organization within the last 12 months, according to a new survey by Gartner. Additionally, 36% of respondents said employees were targeted by deepfake video calls over the past year.

Craig Porter, Director Analyst at Gartner, noted that social engineering and human deception remain at the core of these AI-assisted attacks.

Scammers are using AI to generate phishing pages that impersonate antivirus products, according to Malwarebytes.

China-based cybercriminals are using a sophisticated phishing-as-a-service platform called the “Outsider Phishing Kit” to launch massive phishing campaigns around the world, according to researchers at Group-IB.

Quantum Readiness Day on September 24 is a useful reminder that the security work we do today is not only about preventing breaches tomorrow. It is about protecting data and digital trust for years to come.

Quantum Readiness Day on 24 September is a useful reminder that the security work we do today is not only about preventing breaches tomorrow. It is about protecting data and digital trust for years to come.

For years, cybersecurity has had a familiar villain: the external attacker. The hacker breaking through the firewall, stealing credentials or exploiting an unpatched vulnerability. It is the scenario we have trained for, built defenses around and spent decades trying to prevent.

Like many, the travel and tourism industry has undergone a radical digital transformation over the last few years. From AI-curated itineraries and biometric check-ins to interconnected booking engines and smart room tech, the modern “Digital Guest Journey” is more seamless than ever before.

You cannot protect what you do not know exists.

As a CISO advisor, I am observing a familiar pattern gaining a new, critical dimension. What we historically identified as "Shadow IT", the use of unapproved SaaS and tools, is rapidly evolving into "Shadow AI."

Employees are increasingly leveraging AI bots for drafting, analysis, code generation and strategic decision-making. While the intention is often to drive efficiency, the lack of governance creates a dangerous risk surface: sensitive data leakage, compliance violations and the potential for operational decisions based on unverified, AI-generated content.

"Someone online shows them a 'trick' that feels harmless at first. Then the community pulls them in. Everyone's doing it. It feels like skill, not crime."

Two days at INTERPOL on youth cybercrime, why offender prevention is real police work and why it has to out-recruit rather than out-threaten.

I've spent my career figuring out what makes content stick, from early work for brands like Apple and onward across two decades across film, animation and generative AI. Different tools every few years, same question underneath. What makes someone lean in instead of tuning out?

In business, calling something a dinosaur is meant to suggest it is slow, outdated and overdue for extinction. Which is unfair to dinosaurs, who enjoyed one of the most successful runs in the history of life.