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This month’ s cover story, which can be found on page 15, features Paul Tucker, Chief Information Security and Privacy Officer at BOK Financial. He tells us how AI-driven cyberthreats, deepfakes and autonomous attack tools will redefine security strategies by 2026, forcing organisations to shift from reactive defence to proactive resilience.

Tucker explains that attackers are increasingly using AI for polymorphic ransomware, supply chain compromises, and highly convincing synthetic media fraud, while defenders must respond with AI-powered orchestration and Zero Trust architectures.

He warns that deepfakes and identitybased attacks will escalate rapidly, requiring layered verification controls and stricter authentication policies. For financial institutions, he emphasises that cybersecurity and fraud prevention must be treated as core business priorities aligned with evolving regulatory expectations.

Ultimately, Tucker argues that strong governance, continuous incident readiness, cross-industry collaboration, and an educated workforce will be critical to maintaining cyber-resilience in an AI-accelerated threat landscape.

Elsewhere, we learn how as the Middle East accelerates Digital Transformation, file-borne cyberattacks are rising, pushing organisations to rethink traditional detection-based security models.

Hossam Fawares, Regional Sales Manager – META at Menlo Security, explains that Content Disarm and Reconstruction( CDR) shifts the focus from detecting threats to preventing them by rebuilding every file using only verified safe components.

Unlike reactive tools such as AV, EDR, DLP, and DSPM, CDR neutralises malicious code before it reaches users, closing critical blind spots exploited by highly evasive attacks.

Adoption is growing rapidly across finance, healthcare and the public sector, driven by stricter regulatory mandates and an increasingly sophisticated threat landscape.

With cloud-native, API-first architectures enabling seamless integration at scale, CDR is emerging as a foundational pillar of Zero Trust and a core category for long-term cyber- resilience.

You can read more starting on page 24.

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Mark Bowen Editorial Director

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