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There are a tremendous number of vendors rushing into the security space to sell you something that's going to protect you from the latest “AI-related” threat. It’s being thrown around really casually right now; the idea of AI-powered attacks and everything dying all at once. The reality is, you often can't use technology to solve a technical problem. What I mean by that is, if I think about fraud, a lot of the things you do to protect yourself are not technical solutions but process solutions. If I'm primarily concerned with AI, and the fact that anybody can impersonate my CEO or impersonate an email, then using better technology to try to detect that is probably not the right outcome. Maybe the right outcome is that it doesn't MATTER if someone tries to impersonate my CEO. Maybe I have a process in place so that even if someone successfully impersonates my CEO, it doesn't lead to a bad outcome for my company. The buzzwords around needing an AI super-powered defense system to protect myself against AI super-powered attackers is not necessarily the right approach. It's not always a technical solution to solve a technical problem. Horne Lake, British Columbia, BC

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There’s one security risk that I notice goes under-appreciated in the media and in the news. It’s business email compromise, and the fraud that directly results from it. Everybody hears about ransomware. You hear about a bookstore shutting down or a train system not running. But there's a silent killer, and that silent killer is people whose email systems are compromised, often resulting in financial transfer fraud. Those incidents impact a huge number of businesses, typically to the order of a hundred to a hundred and fifty thousand dollars in losses or more. It's never in the news, because it doesn't shut down their business. They suffer, but they get on with things. It isn't talked about when you speak to law enforcement or others, but it is a silent killer that is chipping away at businesses every day. Maui, Hawaii, USA

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