A strong and talented security team alone cannot protect an organization from today’s cyber risk as it is the people. Strong cybersecurity policies should be defined and enforced in every organization.

Recently, more than $240,000 was stolen by someone pretending to be an executive at a British energy company. This event does not seem all that out of the ordinary, except that the executive was not a real person. Thieves used voice-mimicking software in order to imitate the real executive. And they got away with it. This scam was enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) that was used to create a realistic deep-fake imitation. It is being called the world’s first AI heist.

Computers are everywhere and have gotten smaller and faster. With easy availability of the Internet, these little and powerful computers grew to form an “Internet of things” collecting, processing and presenting useful information to us.

We live in an age of high mobility. Mobile devices let us be productive and on the go. However, all this convenience and flexibility comes at enormous risk. Critical data can be at risk depending on where and how users use their devices. Mobile device use has become the weakest link to a firm's data security.