The cybersecurity landscape gets more complicated every year, with emerging technologies such as AI and the shifting geopolitical landscape bringing extra chaos to any CISO’s desk.

Though automated defense systems are a welcome feather in cap for any company, it’s not just the good guys who have access to the latest tools. Off-the-shelf frameworks to launch attacks are becoming more common and businesses can’t rely on any single service to be a silver bullet.

What are the individual forces at play here? And how can security teams keep up?

In this episode, Rory speaks with Kevin Mandia, founder and former CEO at Mandiant and current board member at cybersecurity firm Expel, and Dave ‘Merk’ Merkel, co-founder and CEO at Expel, to learn more about the current global cybersecurity landscape and what the future holds for security teams.

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• Why attacks against critical national infrastructure (CNI) are such a threat – and how governments are responding
• Why vendor breaches still haunt enterprise IT leaders
• London council claims it faces 20,000 cyber attacks per day
• I love magic links – why aren’t more services using them?
• How to create a secure password policy
• Majority of firms using generative AI experience related security incidents – even as it empowers security teams