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Cybercrime is up around 300% and AI is the reason. Cybercriminals are using large language models with no guardrails to accelerate phishing attacks, deepfakes, social engineering and malicious code generation. Information security professionals need to understand how AI is changing the threat landscape before it's too late.

The word hacker did not start as an insult, it described people pushing technology beyond what it was designed to do. The clip reframes hacking as curiosity, experimentation and technical creativity, while showing how the meaning only became darker when malicious intent entered the picture.

A single film turned teenage curiosity into a lifelong career in information security, long before most people had access to computers at all. War Games made hacking look technical, dangerous and fascinating, and that early obsession became the start of a serious path into InfoSec.

This episode explores why information security needs more wisdom, less noise and fewer empty promises about being “GDPR compliant.” It covers slowing down, valuing data properly, cutting through bad advice and why InfoSec professionals need to own their place as integral voices in modern organisations.  ⸻ For more information about us or if you have any questions you would like us to discuss email podcast@razorthorn.com. We give our clients a personalised, integrated approach to information security, driven by our belief in quality and discretion..

Cybersecurity professionals and CISO roles are under threat. Not from hackers - from AI. Information security leadership, risk management and security strategy are being marketed as something artificial intelligence can now handle. But there's a serious problem with that assumption.

Rising anxiety around decision making worries many leaders, as younger professionals fear choices that might come back to hurt their careers. The conversation argues that some struggle and hard calls build resilience, because security work often means choosing a path with partial data and then learning fast when reality hits. ⸻ For more information about us or if you have any questions you would like us to discuss email podcast@razorthorn.com. We give our clients a personalised, integrated approach to information security, driven by our belief in quality and discretion..

Military war games use zombie apocalypse scenarios not for fantasy, but to push teams beyond routine thinking and train fast decisions under absurd pressure. The aim is to build habits for complex crises, so when a real incident arrives, people respond with practised judgement instead of paralysis and argument. ⸻ For more information about us or if you have any questions you would like us to discuss email podcast@razorthorn.com. We give our clients a personalised, integrated approach to information security, driven by our belief in quality and discretion..

One exercise killed off the leader on paper and left the management team to run the organisation without that decision maker or access to key mandates. The scenario exposed hidden dependencies, legal bottlenecks and fragile processes, and forced everyone to map where single points of failure threaten both business and incident response. ⸻ For more information about us or if you have any questions you would like us to discuss email podcast@razorthorn.com. We give our clients a personalised, integrated approach to information security, driven by our belief in quality and discretion..

A banking incident early in one career showed what good leadership looks like, with senior executives handing over a credit card, arranging food, hotel rooms and proper shift rotations. Instead of demanding updates every five minutes, leadership shielded the team from pressure, supported rest cycles and focused on helping the business survive. ⸻ For more information about us or if you have any questions you would like us to discuss email podcast@razorthorn.com. We give our clients a personalised, integrated approach to information security, driven by our belief in quality and discretion..

Generative AI can produce realistic taxi receipts, complete with stains and wear, which blend into digital expense workflows that expect only a quick photo upload. As more organisations move to app based reimbursement, synthetic documents slip through unless controls, audits and behavioural checks keep pace with these tools. ⸻ For more information about us or if you have any questions you would like us to discuss email podcast@razorthorn.com. We give our clients a personalised, integrated approach to information security, driven by our belief in quality and discretion..

Detection tools now use so called degenerative AI to analyse every frame of a video, looking for traces of the models and methods used to generate or edit it. Generative AI produces the fake, degenerative AI hunts for subtle artefacts in pixels, giving investigators a way to flag manipulated content at scale. ⸻ For more information about us or if you have any questions you would like us to discuss email podcast@razorthorn.com. We give our clients a personalised, integrated approach to information security, driven by our belief in quality and discretion..

A non technical user can produce a credible deepfake in under an hour using off the shelf tools and footage from normal video meetings. Common habits such as recording calls for later review give attackers enough material to train models, so every routine sales or onboarding call becomes potential training data. ⸻ For more information about us or if you have any questions you would like us to discuss email podcast@razorthorn.com. We give our clients a personalised, integrated approach to information security, driven by our belief in quality and discretion..

Training a convincing voice model now needs as little as thirty seconds of audio, which public videos, podcasts and recorded calls provide in abundance. Open profiles reveal who reports to whom, so attackers can pair cloned voices with organisational charts and pressure staff into authorising payments or sharing access. ⸻ For more information about us or if you have any questions you would like us to discuss email podcast@razorthorn.com. We give our clients a personalised, integrated approach to information security, driven by our belief in quality and discretion..

Financial institutions and insurers sit at the front line of deepfake abuse, with digital onboarding, KYC, AML checks and app based claims all exposed to synthetic media. Fraudsters can fake identity documents, accident photos and invoices at scale, which pushes these sectors to rethink verification beyond simple photo uploads. ⸻ For more information about us or if you have any questions you would like us to discuss email podcast@razorthorn.com. We give our clients a personalised, integrated approach to information security, driven by our belief in quality and discretion..

Deepfake clips can place public figures or executives in fabricated scandals, with contentious statements that never happened spreading at speed across social feeds. Proving something did not happen is hard, so people need a zero trust mindset for video and audio, checking sources and context before they react or share. ⸻ For more information about us or if you have any questions you would like us to discuss email podcast@razorthorn.com. We give our clients a personalised, integrated approach to information security, driven by our belief in quality and discretion..

Cybersecurity perimeter defence is dead. Third party risk management and supply chain security are now where breaches actually happen. Cloud security, SaaS solutions and AI agents have completely changed the threat landscape, but most organisations are still using outdated security models. In this episode of Razorwire Raw, Jim explains why everything you thought you knew about perimeter security no longer applies. Your critical business systems aren't where you think they are anymore. And those third party questionnaires you're relying on? There's a problem.

Recruiters now see job candidates turn up on camera using deepfakes to hide their identity, including state linked operators who want access to source code and infrastructure. Small visual glitches used to give these attempts away, but quality keeps improving, which forces organisations to review hiring, verification and remote work security. ⸻ For more information about us or if you have any questions you would like us to discuss email podcast@razorthorn.com. We give our clients a personalised, integrated approach to information security, driven by our belief in quality and discretion..

A finance manager followed a standard process, joined a video call with what looked like known colleagues, and approved urgent payments that totalled twenty five million dollars. Every face and voice on that call was synthetically generated, which shows how deepfakes now bypass email scepticism and hit payment workflows directly. ⸻ For more information about us or if you have any questions you would like us to discuss email podcast@razorthorn.com. We give our clients a personalised, integrated approach to information security, driven by our belief in quality and discretion..

Are you confident you could spot a deepfake in your next meeting, or could someone be using your identity without you knowing? Welcome back to Razorwire, the cybersecurity podcast where we explore the challenges professionals face at the cutting edge of threat intelligence. In this episode, I sit down with Alexandra Jorissen, a specialist in deepfake detection and digital identity safeguards. We discuss the explosive rise of deepfake technology, where it’s already being used and what it means for personal and professional security.

After a major breach, grand statements about taking security seriously ring hollow when customer data sits in fraudsters’ hands. The biggest mistake in a crisis is clinging to control instead of trusting security specialists, stepping back for a short period and letting the expert lead the technical response. ⸻ For more information about us or if you have any questions you would like us to discuss email podcast@razorthorn.com. We give our clients a personalised, integrated approach to information security, driven by our belief in quality and discretion..

Major incidents demand rapid hiring, outside support and big spends within hours, not after weeks of approvals and budget meetings. Strong incident response gives security leaders pre agreed authority to sign contracts and access funds, so they bring in hundreds of specialists at speed instead of watching the breach spread. ⸻ For more information about us or if you have any questions you would like us to discuss email podcast@razorthorn.com. We give our clients a personalised, integrated approach to information security, driven by our belief in quality and discretion..

We explore how deepfakes move from petty revenge and fake intimate content to multimillion-dollar fraud, synthetic colleagues on calls and cloned voices at the helpdesk. Viewers hear how easy these tools are to use, how validation habits need to change, and why both the public and security teams must rethink what they trust. ⸻ For more information about us or if you have any questions you would like us to discuss email podcast@razorthorn.com. We give our clients a personalised, integrated approach to information security, driven by our belief in quality and discretion..

Leadership often rejects war gaming and treats incident practice as a waste of precious diary slots, then chaos erupts in the first five minutes of a real breach. Without clear command, trust in security staff and a standard way of working, executives rush to improvise and turn an incident into a full scale disaster. ⸻ For more information about us or if you have any questions you would like us to discuss email podcast@razorthorn.com. We give our clients a personalised, integrated approach to information security, driven by our belief in quality and discretion..

Security controls fail when countermeasures are bypassed or someone inside goes off script, and incident response decides whether the business survives the hit. Incidents are inevitable, so teams need plans, rehearsals and clear roles long before a real breach arrives, not during the worst day of the year. ⸻ For more information about us or if you have any questions you would like us to discuss email podcast@razorthorn.com. We give our clients a personalised, integrated approach to information security, driven by our belief in quality and discretion..