Security Management Highlights

Security Management magazine Senior Editor Megan Gates talks about the online frauds we’re seeing personally and professionally, as well as the serious costs involved. Then, cybersecurity expert Tom Cross, head of threat research at GetReal Security, gets into deepfakes: AI-tech-enabled recorded or live audio and video that looks so legitimate the world thinks fake news is real, fake job applicants get hired, and fake authorities obtain confidential information. Additional Resources Go deeper into considering how technical double-checking and human skepticism intersect in countering fraud with the NIST Phish Scale that Tom Cross mentions: https://www.nist.gov/publications/nist-phish-scale-user-guide . Read how North Korea turned identity fraud into cash and information access by getting fake IT workers hired around the world: https://www.asisonline.org/security-management-magazine/latest-news/today-in-security/2026/august/Follow-the-Money/ AI also makes deepfakes in “cognitive warfare” between companies,