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Thomas Kranz is an award-winning cybersecurity consultant, a senior security & technology leader, and an author, with more than 30 years of experience in the global cybersecurity sector. His book “Making Sense of Cybersecurity” won the bronze award in the Axiom Business Book Awards and was selected as an official entry for the Business Book Awards 2023. As a consultant, Thomas was awarded the Gold Globee® Winner for Cybersecurity Consultant of the Year in March 2023. Thomas has been featured on global keynote panels and industry events, where he produced and presented talks and workshops on cybersecurity strategies, digital transformation, and technology. Previously living in the UK, Thomas now resides in a picturesque, remote region of Italy which he likes to joke as being easier to commute to London than when he was living there. During his spare time, Thomas cares for his rescued dogs, cats, goats, ducks, geese, and a mischievous wild boar.
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Cybersecurity has long been a race between attackers trying to get in and defenders trying to keep them out. But frontier AI is changing the pace of that race. By helping threat actors discover vulnerabilities, conduct reconnaissance and experiment with attack techniques more quickly and at a greater scale, AI can shrink the time security teams have to recognize a threat and respond before it causes damage. Offensive activities that once took weeks can increasingly be compressed into minutes. That shift also challenges a more fundamental assumption behind traditional detection: that defenders will recognize enough of an attack to know what they’re looking for. Frontier AI can help adversaries vary techniques, combine attack methods and explore unfamiliar paths at a scale that makes relying primarily on established signatures, indicators and playbooks increasingly risky. Cybersecurity guidance is consequently evolving toward models that account for AI-enabled attacks while also using AI to strengthen defense and proactively address emerging threats.Preparing for that environment means looking beyond how quickly an organization can identify an attack to how much room for maneuver its systems leave an attacker in the first place. Members of the Senior Executive Cybersecurity Think Tank share deep expertise in enterprise cybersecurity strategies, data breach prevention, risk management, threat detection and modern security architecture. Below, they explore how security leaders should adapt their defenses for an AI-accelerated threat landscape and which capabilities are becoming most important.