Hackers Have Claude. Do You Have Courage?
Hackers Have Claude. Do You Have Courage?
AI already beat humans at hacking, and your board is still debating Multi-Factor Authentication. While Claude wins contests, ransomware runs as a service. If you’re waiting for certainty, attackers already wrote your roadmap.
At Black Hat 2025 in Las Vegas, Nicole Perlroth, after a decade at The New York Times, issued the blunt truth: we’re outpaced and underprepared. Ransomware-as-a-service thrives; deepfakes distort reality; agentic workflows are targeted; Claude wins hacking contests.
This isn’t about fear; it’s about focus. The mission is to safeguard people, truth, and critical systems in a world where markets, media, and machines collide. Committees move slowly; adversaries don’t.
Every leader should lock in this playbook now:
- Segment everything, kill flat networks.
- Train relentlessly, phishing is a human war.
- Rehearse incidents, minutes decide outcomes.
Security is a leadership discipline, not an IT chore. Fund it, measure it, audit it, relentlessly. If you can’t explain your crown jewels and your recovery plan in one page, you don’t have one. Incentives drive execution, set them right and act now.
Will you choose decisive protection before the next breach forces your hand? See the signals, adapt with purpose, verify with integrity, empower your people as I describe in my new book Now What?. Which single move will you commit to this week to protect what matters most?
Read the full article on TechRepublic.
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Dr. Mark van Rijmenam
Dr. Mark van Rijmenam is The Digital Speaker, a world-leading futurist and global AI keynote speaker who helps leaders decide what AI, and the technologies that follow it, mean for their business. He speaks to leadership teams at their retreats and to conference audiences worldwide, and his WAVE framework gives them a way of deciding that they keep using long after he has left the room. His Intelligence Age Scorecard measures how ready an organization is across the four WAVE pillars.
He holds a PhD from the University of Technology Sydney, is a Certified Speaking Professional and Global Speaking Fellow, and ranks among the world’s top futurists on the Global Gurus list (#1 in 2025, #3 in 2026). Salesforce named him one of its 16 leading AI voices. He has written six books, most recently Now What? How to Ride the Tsunami of Change, writes the Synthetic Minds newsletter on Substack, and founded Futurwise. Talk to his digital twin on WhatsApp: +1 (830) 463-6967.
