Cyber Security Protection

The failure of the current iteration of generative AI to live up to its promises is putting severe strain on its credibility. A collapse could result in the destruction of personal wealth on a massive scale. While it is probably a given that the artificial intelligence (AI) industry is here to stay, questions are many. What form will survive, what will it really cost, and what is the near-term effect on other sectors like the cybersecurity industry? There are more than 5,000 cybersecurity tool providers and thousands more MSSPs and all of them, in some form, are reliant on AI to some degree. Cybersecurity marketing, investment, and especially technology development could be a disastrous dependency… or not. AI startup funding reached $333 billion in 2024 AI in 2024. Global venture capital funding for generative AI reached approximately $45 billion in 2024, from $24 billion in 2023 AI Investment Trends 2025. AI-related investments accounted for 33 percent of total investments into VC-backed companies in the U.S. This year, global venture capital investment in generative AI appears ready to dwarf those totals, with $49.2 billion in the first half of 2025. It is on track to exceed $100 billion this year . The big knock on AI is the lack of an effective infrastructure to support the claims the AI companies are making on potential uses. In response, tech giants are making massive infrastructure investments: More than $300 billion has been invested this year on AI infrastructure tech megacaps plan to spend more than $300 billion in 2025 as AI race intensifies. The post Credibility and fortunes at risk with AI appeared first on Cyber Protection Magazine.

Zero Trust has become the leading security model in enterprise IT today. However, many organizations find that their Zero Trust frameworks do not meet expectations. The post Why You Can’t Trust Zero Trust Solutions appeared first on Cyber Protection Magazine.

Listening to the presentations and pitches of the companies participating in the very well-attended AI Infra Summit that ended inmore The post Irrational exuberance at AI Infra Summit appeared first on Cyber Protection Magazine.

The UK Government has recently stated it intends to advance a proposal that would prohibit ransomware payments by public sector organisations and operators of critical national infrastructure (CNI). The post A ransomware payment ban will focus minds, but will it fix the problem? appeared first on Cyber Protection Magazine.

Recent research has revealed the biggest risk IT security professionals face when deploying AI. Surprisingly, it isn’t data leakage or new cyber attack vectors, though both remain important. In fact, the most significant concern is that employees will defer to AI without applying the proper checks and balances. The post Deferring to AI without checks and balances: Addressing a very human risk appeared first on Cyber Protection Magazine.

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Stopping fraud is a major focus of cybersecurity is criminal fraud. Largely, the industry is winning that war. Nowhere is that protection more successful than in combatting deepfake crime, even though industry marketing is geared to promote fear over success. Where deepfakes are causing the real problem is in legal fraud. Digital fraud represents 0.02 percent of all fraud claims according the National Crime Insurance Bureau (NCIB). While there is evidence that criminal use of AI is increasing the number of attacks, the number of successful attacks is too low to warrant recording. Deepfake crime a trifle The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) lumps all forms of online fraud into a single category. Even so, the IC3 fielded 859,532 complaints of suspected internet crime in 2024. Of those complaints, 256,256 incidents resulted in actual monetary losses, representing an average loss of $19,372 per complaint. Overall, the reported losses exceeded $16.6 billion, a 33% increase from 2023. However, the top three cybercrimes in 2024 reported to IC3 were phishing/spoofing, extortion, and personal data breaches. None of those required the use of deepfake technology, and rarely did. Extrapolating the data from NCIB with IC3’s indicates successful deepfake fraud cases were less than 50 in total in 2024 with 94% of those occurring during a spike of activity between November and December 2024. The post Deepfakes in legal fraud unaddressed appeared first on Cyber Protection Magazine.

The growing IT skills gap is a major headache for organisations today. Finding skilled professionals across all disciplines is increasingly difficult and nowhere is the shortfall more critical than in cybersecurity. It’s a worldwide problem. The post How technology and teamwork can fill the cybersecurity skills gap appeared first on Cyber Protection Magazine.

Traditional approaches to cybersecurity are no longer enough. We must move beyond passive defence and actively prepare for this new era of cyberwarfare. The post How organisations can prepare for the era of AI cyberwarfare appeared first on Cyber Protection Magazine.

Red teaming, or adversary simulation, emulates real-world attackers using physical, social and technical techniques to test an organisation’s defences. Unlike standard penetration tests, these covert exercises emphasise persistence, privilege escalation and detection avoidance to reveal weaknesses across people, processes and technology. The post Red Teaming: Real-World Attacks for Stronger Security appeared first on Cyber Protection Magazine.