{"id":193284,"date":"2026-03-06T04:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T09:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/collaboration-critical-as-geopolitical-pressures-ai-reshape-cybersecurity\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T04:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T09:45:09","slug":"collaboration-critical-as-geopolitical-pressures-ai-reshape-cybersecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/collaboration-critical-as-geopolitical-pressures-ai-reshape-cybersecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Collaboration Critical\u00a0As\u00a0Geopolitical Pressures, AI Reshape Cybersecurity\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Collaboration Critical\u00a0As\u00a0Geopolitical Pressures, AI Reshape Cybersecurity\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/securityboulevard.com\/2026\/03\/collaboration-critical-as-geopolitical-pressures-ai-reshape-cybersecurity\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-03-06 04:33:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: securityboulevard.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\u00a0I\u2019ve\u00a0been thinking a lot about\u00a0collaboration and how important it is\u2014at many\u00a0different\u00a0levels\u2014to cybersecurity.\u00a0And now a\u00a0study by the World Economic Forum (WEF)\u00a0tracks that way\u00a0underscores just how\u00a0powerful\u2014and necessary\u2014collaboration is.\u00a0\u00a0Despite the current geopolitical fragmentation and the pivot toward sovereignty as well as \u201ca widening technological divide,\u201d collaboration has become more important than ever, particularly as AI transforms cyber for both defenders and bad actors. The WEF\u2019s\u00a0Global Risks Report\u00a0explores the \u201cintersection of AI adoption and cyber readiness, and the emerging disparities that innovation creates.\u201d\u00a0As\u00a0\u201cunequal access to resources and expertise continues to widen cyber inequity,\u201d WEF contends that \u201cstrengthening collective cyber resilience has become both an economic and a societal imperative.\u201d\u00a0Even\u00a0amid fragmentation, economic strain and uncertainty,\u00a0the researchers say, \u201ccollective action can drive progress for all.\u201d\u00a0Not surprisingly, AI is expected \u201cto be the most significant driver of change in cybersecurity in the year ahead, according to 94% of survey respondents.\u201d More importantly, it\u2019s not just talk\u2014that recognition \u201cis translating into concrete action across organizations\u201d with 64% of respondents currently assessing the security of AI tools, up from 37% in 2025.\u00a0But respondents know that bad actors are serious about AI as well. Nearly nine of 10 (87%) say that AI-related vulnerabilities were \u201cthe fastest-growing cyber risk\u201d in 2025.\u00a0\u201cCyber technology is particularly susceptible to atrophy if it isn\u2019t cared for and fed properly. AI-powered threat actors and machine-on-machine cyber warfare is now a reality,\u201d says Hank Thomas, co-founder and CEO at Strategic Cyber Ventures. Calling it an \u201cimperative that cyber tactics, techniques, procedures, and technology quickly innovate, collaborate with, and if needed, merge with other technologies to fill gaps in our defenses,\u201d Thomas says, \u201cif you wait too long to do this, the value of your security solution could quickly plummet towards zero.\u00a0Going forward,\u00a0\u201cAI failures are poised to blur the line between technical and business risk in ways we haven\u2019t seen before,\u201d says Diana Kelley, CISO at Noma Security.\u00a0Noting that \u201cwhen\u00a0an AI system confidently fabricates information or a chat agent insults a customer, organizations will need CISOs who understand both the technical failure mode and the potential business catastrophe it triggers,\u201d Kelley says, \u201ccreating an entirely new security function just for AI doesn\u2019t make sense, since AI will be woven throughout the entire business and separating IT security and AI security could lead to mis-matched policies and gaps in governance.\u201d\u00a0However, although \u201cAI is powering a new generation of defensive tools, it also makes the types of attacks that were once the domain of only very experienced threat actors much more accessible,\u201d says Seth Spergel, partner at Merlin Ventures.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cAs a result, organizations are seeing both nation-states and criminals probe their defenses at a significantly higher volume than we have seen in years past. Combine that with the geopolitical tensions we are\u00a0witnessing\u00a0around the world, and there is a clear driver for investing in the cybersecurity market,\u201d\u00a0Spergel says.\u00a0As attackers shift from email and SMS into trusted environments like mobile apps, collaboration tools, and voice interfaces, \u201cdefenders are responding with behavioral biometrics, device-level and app-level anomaly detection, and cross-channel intelligence sharing to flag campaigns early,\u201d says Dan Butzer, senior solutions architect at Zimperium.\u202f\u00a0\u00a0\u201cTo effectively mitigate increasingly sophisticated AI attacks, it is crucial to establish a high level of confidence that a genuine, fully legitimate, and untampered app is running on an authentic, unbroken device (not a hacked or emulated one), over a secure communication channel, and operated by a trusted human user (not an AI),\u201d says Butzer.\u00a0To meet the changes brought by AI,\u00a0Kelley expects that\u00a0most\u00a0organizations\u00a0\u201cwill integrate AI and IT security under the Global CISO who will augment capability by building specialized teams\u201d and \u201cwe\u2019ll see the continued rise of BISOs (Business Information Security Officers), TISOs (Technical Information Security Officers) and the addition of dedicated AI Security Officers leading domain-expert teams, all unified under one Office of the CISO with shared mission and accountability.\u201d\u00a0Geopolitics is also exerting influence on cybersecurity; in fact, it is a top factor affecting cyber risk mitigation strategies. Nearly two-thirds of organizations\u201464 percent\u2014\u201dare accounting for geopolitically motivated cyberattacks, such as disruption of critical infrastructure or espionage.\u201d And even more, 91% of the largest entities have changed cybersecurity strategist as a result of geopolitical volatility.\u00a0But as geopolitical volatility has increased, the confidence level in national cyber preparedness is on the decline. Nearly one-third (31%) have \u201clow confidence in their nation\u2019s ability to respond to major cyber incidents,\u201d a modest but significant rise from the 26 percent who said the same last year. As can be expected, that confidence fluctuates according to region, with more (85%) in the Middle East and North Africa expressing a high degree of confidence that their country can protect critical infrastructure, compared to a paltry 13% in Latin America and the Caribbean. \u00a0The C-Suite, CISOs, and CSOs must \u201clook beyond siloed views of obviously privileged identities in individual systems and take a holistic view of the combinations of privileges, entitlements and roles that could be exploited by an attacker to elevate privilege, move laterally and inflict damage,\u201d says James Maude, field CTO at BeyondTrust.\u00a0\u00a0The identity security debt accumulated by many organizations, Maude says, \u201crepresents a far greater risk than any other area as it only takes the attacker to login using the right identity and all is lost because of the paths to privilege that abound in their environment.\u201dTim Callan, chief compliance officer at\u00a0Sectigo, expects the imminent\u00a0death of\u00a0\u201clegacy technology stacks, forced upon organizations by post-quantum cryptographic preparations.\u201d\u00a0Those systems \u201crely on cryptographic algorithms, such as RSA and ECC, however, as the push for PQC standards is adopted, these older systems will struggle to integrate new algorithms, leading to obsolescence or requiring a significant overhaul of existing technology.\u201d\u00a0Those organizations\u00a0that insist on\u00a0\u201cholding\u00a0on to\u00a0legacy technology infrastructures will be forced to confront the limitations of their outdated infrastructures,\u201d he says.\u00a0\u201cOrganizations need to act now to carefully plan and execute their transition \u2013 while challenging \u2013 to ensure they remain secure and compliant in the quantum era.\u201d
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