'Really frightening': IT leaders on cybersecurity in the age of AI

'How do you work out what's real and what's not real?'

John Leonard
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Ian Golding and Joanna Smith talking to Computing's Tom Allen
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Ian Golding and Joanna Smith talking to Computing's Tom Allen

The already tricky job of prioritising security interventions is being made even more difficult by the arrival of deepfakes and generative AI.

So said interim CIO Ian Golding, speaking on a panel at Computing's IT Leaders Summit last week, who described this development as a "step change". "I do feel slightly panicky about the need to ...

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