Two AI models from two separate companies now complete multi-step enterprise attack simulations without human intervention. The UK AI Security Institute confirmed both independently. Work that previously required elite specialists, months of effort, and seven-figure budgets can now be replicated in hours for under $2,000. The NCSC estimates a full simulated enterprise attack costs roughly £65 in compute. This is one of the first issues of the Stratsec Emerging Threat Monitor. It covers what happened, whether it matters (it does, but not for the reasons most headlines suggest), and what to do about it. The full issue includes a reality check on the hype, practical action steps, a complete CISO governance briefing, supplier assurance questions you can send on Monday morning, a tabletop exercise scenario, and board-ready language you can use verbatim. https://lnkd.in/dGXxuWPh
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Computer and Network Security
Emerging technology threats, without the hype. AI · Quantum · Autonomous Systems · Tech-Geopolitics · Regulation
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Stratsec is a practitioner-led strategic security intelligence firm focused on emerging technology threats — the risks that fall between the cracks of traditional cybersecurity, geopolitical analysis, and technology research. Every week brings new headlines about AI threats, quantum breakthroughs, and autonomous systems. Most of it is vendor-driven fear or media-driven sensation. The reality for security leaders is more nuanced: some emerging threats are genuinely novel, but many are best addressed by strengthening the fundamentals you should already have in place. Stratsec exists to make that distinction for you. Our team includes former Fortune 500 CISOs and CROs, security practice leaders from the Big Four, IBM, and Accenture, founders of what was at the time the world's largest offensive security firm, heads of national cybersecurity organisations, intelligence professionals from NATO-aligned nations, and practitioners who built emerging technology risk labs for NATO and allied governments. We publish the Stratsec Emerging Threat Monitor — a regular intelligence briefing covering five threat domains: AI Security & Governance, Quantum Security, Robotics, Drones & Autonomous Systems, Tech-Geopolitics, and Regulatory Horizon. Each item follows a simple structure: what happened (without the hype), whether you should care (honestly), and what to do about it (practically). When the answer is "double down on hygiene," we say so. When something is genuinely new, we don't downplay it. Free subscribers get the developments. Paid subscribers get the reality check and the action brief. Subscribe at intelligence.stratsec.com
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- 51-200 employees
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- 2021
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- Cybersecurity, Information Security, IoT Security, IIoT Security, Cyber-Kinetic, Cyber-Kinetic Security, Kinetic-Cyber, Critical Infrastructure, Critical Infrastructure Protection, AI Security, Robotics Security, Autonomous Systems Security, Drones Security, Quantum Security, PQC, AI Safety, Tech-Geopolitics, Compliance, and Infosec
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We built Stratsec because the information landscape for emerging technology threats is broken. Vendor research exists to sell products. Media coverage optimises for clicks. Analyst reports arrive months late. Government advisories are getting thinner as agencies lose headcount. Meanwhile, NIS2, DORA, and the EU AI Act are creating board-level accountability for risks that most organisations don't yet have frameworks to assess. The Stratsec Emerging Threat Monitor is a practitioner-led intelligence briefing covering AI security, quantum threats, autonomous systems, tech-geopolitics, and emerging regulation. What's real, what's overblown, and what to do about it. We already have several sample issues published. You can read them now and see exactly what you'll get. Here is what you won't see: every draft is reviewed, debated, and stress-tested by an informal advisory group of current and former CISOs from some of the world's largest companies before it goes out. Over 200 years of combined Fortune 500 security leadership. By the time a briefing reaches your inbox, that group has already agreed it would be useful to a working CISO. https://lnkd.in/d93MZAef