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The Dishwasher Doesn’t Need a Soul, The Film Does.

People say they can spot AI writing a mile off. The em dashes. The word “delve.” The LinkedIn posts that begin with “I’ve been thinking a lot about leadership” and end without a single ...

[Cybersecurity Awareness Month] Why Your Best Incident Reporting Tool Is Behavioral, Not Software

During an incident, the most valuable intel is from people on the ground. Security teams rely on their colleagues across the organization to report issues quickly and without trying to ...

Why People Remember Jaws But Forget Your Security Training

“You’re gonna need a bigger boat.”

What Security Can Learn From Dinosaurs

In business, calling something a dinosaur is meant to suggest it is slow, outdated and overdue for extinction.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 New Face of AI Risk

Cybercrime used to have a ‘"tell." It was the digital equivalent of a villain stroking their cat - clunky grammar, misspelt links and suspicious attachments that screamed ‘phishing’.

Prompt Injection and the Rise of Agentic Risk

Boxers will often say, the punches that hurt the most aren’t the ones which are thrown with the most force, but the ones they didn’t see coming. I think the same is true in cybersecurity. ...

Shadow AI Is Not Shadow IT With a Better Marketing Budget

I saw a venn diagram on social media. One circle is Shadow IT, one circle is Shadow AI, a substantial overlap, and the implicit message is that they are effectively the same challenge.

Security Training Needs Google Maps, Not Christopher Columbus

If you’re around my age, then you know the joy of using an old paper map. Not real joy, obviously. More the sort of joy normally associated with trying to keep track of 3 pages, getting ...

Attackers aren’t loyal to any collaboration channel

Cloud email security has become pretty good. Not perfect, obviously, because the attack landscape is forever changing. But good enough that the old tactics do not land with the same ...

Fighting AI-Assisted Ransomware Threats

This Anti-Ransomware Day, it's important to recognize the ever-changing landscape of cyber threats and how organizations can fortify their defenses. The evolution from traditional ...