Cybersecurity Meets Antifragility and Systems Theory

Is your greatest cyber vulnerability your biology? 🧠🛡️ We've explored the "Threshold" and how courage is needed to move your team from Survival to Growth. Now, we are ready for initiation, and every hero faces two major tests. Join us for our next session on "The Hijack You Don't Feel." We are going deeper into the neuroscience of why the smartest brains bypass critical thinking and logic circuitry when urgency or hierarchy hits the inbox. We’ll expose the biological shortcuts that attackers weaponize. What we will explore: - The Biology of the Breach: Why your "action circuitry" fires before your evaluation circuitry can even decide to think. - The 0.3 Second Rule: Why the fastest reflex is the most dangerous one in your digital life. - Building the Guardrail: Moving from simple awareness to robust, protective reflex. Don't miss this crucial conversation on the future of team intelligence. Save the Date: 📅 Monday, May 11th 🕛 12pm UK Time 📍 Register here: https://shorturl.at/Ld9RS #HerosJourney #Thinking50 #CyberReadiness #HumanLayer #PressurePause #AuthorityVigilance Fi Hills Jenny Korten Missak Vehouni Courtney Richards Brett Heyns Matt Zembruski Julie Bloom Kris Thorne Joan Keevill Jenny Baynes Jennifer L. Bryan FCIPD David Onigbanjo Kushal Ramyad Collette Stone MSc MBA Chartered FCIPD Sarah Thorne

Last week I joined a The Purple Book Community panel on what frontier AI models like Mythos actually mean for security programs. 300+ security leaders showed up (Zoom hit capacity!) which tells you exactly where this topic sits on the priority list right now. Great conversation with Dheeraj Khanna & Paolo D., moderated by Mark Lambert. The reframing I keep coming back to: this isn't a new category of vulnerability. It's a new speed of attack. AI agents don't sleep, don't follow change control, and will chain a dozen low-severity findings into a critical exploit path without blinking. The question isn't whether your team can find vulnerabilities anymore, it's whether you can fix them faster than an AI agent can weaponize them. Recording is live if you want to dig in: https://lnkd.in/ekHPbpgE

It was great to hear from front line leaders on The Purple Book Community session getting their enterprises ready to tackle this new realty - the Mythos-class / Frontier AI Models. Excellent insights Nathan Motyl, MBA, Dheeraj Khanna, Paolo D. and Mark Lambert Volume, Velocity, Vulnerability chaining...

Are you ready for the new era of AI-driven cyber threats? The economics of hacking have just fundamentally changed. In the latest episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, former NSA cybersecurity director Rob Joyce and WWT's Kent Noyesdiscuss the "Mythos" wake-up call—and it changes the security conversation entirely. #wwt #ai #securealltogether #cyber #mythos https://lnkd.in/eTRyvmju

Anthropic’s upcoming Mythos model wasn’t designed to hack; it simply learned how. This serves as a crucial wake-up call. A recent WWT AI Proving Ground discussion highlights a key shift: the same skills used to build software can now be used to break it. For organizations running custom applications (which is most enterprises), this changes how we think about security readiness. When AI can generate working exploits at scale, the landscape changes dramatically. Vulnerability discovery and coding are now essentially the same skill, leaving every organization running custom code exposed to new risks. Leaders in this field are not debating the implications; they are taking action by: - Rebuilding vulnerability management from the ground up - Establishing AI-driven lab environments to test their defenses - Conducting AI-powered red teaming before attackers can exploit vulnerabilities The takeaway is both simple and urgent: ➡️ Patch continuously ➡️ Log everything ➡️ Assume breach ➡️ Design resilience around what truly matters to the business We’ve crossed a threshold. This is no longer about building higher walls; it’s about creating smarter traps and adapting at the speed of AI. I am curious to learn how others are preparing their security posture for this significant shift. https://lnkd.in/eEsTrbs3

I was asked by Dr Vladas Leonas, GAICD, FACS, FIEAust to share my thoughts on a book (Cumulative Effect) he has been closely involved with, Andy Jenkinson foreword. The book spans a range of topics, including quantum and the evolving complexity of modern systems. What stood out to me most, however, is the focus on the cumulative nature of risk. Small, individually manageable vulnerabilities don’t remain isolated. Over time, they combine across systems, platforms, and dependencies into something far more systemic. The industry response is familiar: more monitoring more compliance more audit However, these approaches all share a common limitation. They are reactive. They tell us what has already happened. They don’t prevent it from happening. One idea that stayed with me is simple: we cannot audit our way to safety. That’s the shift. The gap is not visibility, it is enforcement. Until systems require authority to be present at the moment of execution, they continue to operate on assumed permission. At scale, assumption becomes risk. Thank you Dr Vladas Leonas, GAICD, FACS, FIEAust for sharing this a timely and thought-provoking perspective. #CyberSecurity #AI #ExecutionControl #DigitalSovereignty #Governance #RiskManagement #PresenceBoundExecution

Information warfare is no longer a side channel; it’s shaping outcomes. Iran’s AI-driven “slopaganda” strategy shows how narrative scale, emotional resonance, and digital ecosystems can create real geopolitical and business impact. For companies operating globally, perception is becoming a risk vector in its own right. Crisis24's Middle East Team examines what this means for organizations' exposure, operations, and decision-making. Read the full analysis: https://ow.ly/TVRc50YQPCR #RiskIntelligence #BusinessContinuity #RiskManagement #CyberSecurity #AI #Iran #MiddleEast

What happens when leading experts are put inside a live national security scenario? Last week, as part of National Security Week, Vanderbilt faculty stepped into the Arctic—through a first-of-its-kind tabletop exercise designed to test strategy, decision-making, and collaboration in real time. Academic Workshops Day brought together four interdisciplinary workshops and a capstone exercise focused on competition in the Arctic, giving subject matter experts the opportunity to engage directly with the complexities shaping modern conflict. This is how Vanderbilt is doing things differently—investing not only in students, but in faculty, to strengthen national security through education, collaboration, and applied problem-solving. ▶️ Watch the highlights below. #NationalSecurity #EmergingThreats #ArcticSecurity #HigherEducation #Cybersecurity #AI #Vanderbilt