Mark Hamill
Vice President of Product, Metacompliance
The surge of AI tools has added to the challenge cybersecurity professionals are facing alongside countering evolving threats, navigating strict regulations and taking greater responsibility for data protection.
Artificial intelligence-powered tools like chatbots and video generators dominate headlines, but AI has long played a role in cybersecurity, helping to outsmart hackers and prevent breaches. However, cybercriminals also exploit these advancements, adapting at a pace that ethical defenders struggle to match.
Adaptive learning ensures cyber resilience
Humans don’t evolve like technology does. Despite using advanced devices, they remain vulnerable to the same social engineering tactics — often worsened by new technology creating fresh attack opportunities.
In cybersecurity, resilience isn’t about static defences but fostering continuous learning. By adapting to threats and learning from attacks, individuals and organisations evolve to survive in the digital world.
AI accelerates cyber threats
We live in extraordinary times, with rapidly advancing AI transforming fields from research to medicine. However, these same tools empower cybercriminals, enabling scaled attacks with perfect grammar, tailored messaging and personalised deception, making threats more sophisticated than ever.
The real threat is still ahead. Small, specialised AI programs working together will enable attacks on an unimaginable scale. Just as AI agents can streamline mundane tasks, they can also automate cyberattacks, gathering intelligence, probing vulnerabilities and launching highly personalised assaults with no ethical or legal constraints.
Cybersecurity learning should
align with business goals and be
consistent, relevant and concise.
Resilience strengthens cybersecurity defences
Security awareness training has evolved from dull, repetitive modules to focused on knowledge-sharing. The next phase is resilience, shifting from compliance to building lasting defences against threats.
Awareness is recognising the threat; resilience is resisting it. In phishing, training alone can’t cover every scenario. Resilience blends training, instinct and knowledge of attacker behaviour, empowering employees to spot risks and avoid actions that could lead to breaches, even in fast-moving environments.
The key is mastering the cybersecurity basics
Engage users without overwhelming them by personalising training, making it interesting rather than a chore. Assign a campaign owner to manage both systems and outcomes. Measure behaviour, not just completion. Cybersecurity learning should align with business goals and be consistent, relevant and concise. Avoid unnecessary content — keep it current and to the point.
At MetaCompliance, we support thousands of customers, many of whom have no existing solution in place, and leverage our expert teams to protect their employees, and their businesses from cyber-attacks.
