Werner Lindemann on how AI is rewriting the infosec rulebook

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Werner Lindemann discusses the impact of AI on information security and the evolving threat landscape.

The pace at which artificial intelligence is reshaping the threat landscape is outstripping the ability of most organisations to defend themselves, with shadow AI, synthetic identity attacks and a looming quantum computing disruption all converging at once. That’s the view of DataGroupIT CEO Werner Lindemann, who joined Duncan McLeod on the TechCentral Show to unpack what business leaders should be doing about AI and information security. Lindemann, who spent more than 30 years in senior roles at BCX and Clickatell before joining the security solutions distributor, says the African threat environment is no longer a watered-down version of what is happening elsewhere. Attackers are deploying the same AI-powered tools globally, and AI-enabled phishing campaigns now achieve click-through rates that traditional defences were never designed to withstand. A bigger blind spot, he argues, is shadow AI – employees pasting sensitive data into unapproved AI tools without oversight. Lindemann says this is fast eclipsing the shadow IT problem of the past decade because the tools are free, frictionless and often invisible to security teams. The conversation also tackles the credibility crisis…

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Host: Duncan McLeod

Guest: Werner Lindemann

Topics covered

• artificial intelligence
• information security
• threat landscape
• shadow AI
• identity verification
• phishing campaigns

Keywords

• AI
• information security
• shadow AI
• synthetic identity attacks
• quantum computing
• phishing
• identity verification

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Organizations: DataGroupIT, BCX, Clickatell

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