I write about the things that keep executives up at night — and the things they should be losing sleep over but aren’t.

Over the past few months I’ve published deep dives on the collisions between AI, cybersecurity, leadership, and the forces reshaping the workforce. Here are 10 you might find useful:

🔒 Security & Leadership
→ Nearly 25% of Fortune 500 CISOs last just one year. The problem isn’t the people — it’s the system.
https://kiledjian.com/2025/10/14/built-to-fail-the-structural.html
→ Attackers aren’t deploying AI someday. They’re doing it now — and 80% of recent ransomware already uses it.
https://kiledjian.com/2025/10/05/cybersecurity-in-the-era-of.html
→ A new anonymous wireless carrier claims to know nothing about its customers. I did a technical teardown.
https://kiledjian.com/2025/12/17/in-the-final-weeks-of.html
→ “Unhackable” phones are everywhere on social media. Here’s what a security professional actually thinks.
https://kiledjian.com/2026/01/25/why-there-is-no-such.html

🤖 AI — Practically
→ The “stochastic parrot” era is over. What that means for your boardroom.
https://kiledjian.com/2026/01/24/the-end-of-the-stochastic.html
→ Your AI agrees with you too much. Here’s how to fix that with better prompts.
https://kiledjian.com/2025/10/07/prompting-strategies-to-reduce-ai.html
→ One line added to any prompt can improve AI output by 14–45%. No tools required.
https://kiledjian.com/2025/11/28/improving-ai-outcomes-through-better.html

🌍 The Bigger Picture
→ In 2026, the internet is a contested information environment. Here’s a field manual for protecting your perception.
https://kiledjian.com/2026/01/19/contested-information-environment-a-field.html
→ France just recorded more deaths than births for the first time since WWII. The U.S. is projected to follow by 2030. What this means for business.
https://kiledjian.com/2026/01/29/the-demographic-crossroads-understanding-natural.html
→ The Great Resignation is dead. Welcome to “job clinging” — and it’s worse than you think.
https://kiledjian.com/2025/09/29/the-great-resignation-is-over.html

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Incident summary:
Target: PayPal - Working Capital (PPWC) loan app
Root cause: Software code error
Exposure window: July 1- Dec 13, 2025
Discovery: Dec 12, 2025
Scope: ~100 users

Data exposed:
• SSN
• DOB
• Contact & business details

No core system compromise reported.
Unauthorized transactions observed in limited cases.

Credit monitoring via Equifax provided.
Key considerations:

– Secure SDLC gaps?
– Change management review failure?
– Logging & anomaly detection delay?
– Exposure vs intrusion classification challenges

Six months of unnoticed PII exposure highlights how application-layer misconfigurations can rival full breaches in impact.

How would you design detection controls to catch this earlier?

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Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/paypal-discloses-data-breach-exposing-users-personal-information/

#ThreatAnalysis #SecureSDLC #FintechSecurity #ApplicationSecurity #DataExposure #CyberRisk #DFIR #Governance #Infosec

Ransomware doesn’t just shut down systems — it triggers compliance violations.
𝗚𝗗𝗣𝗥 deadlines. 𝗛𝗜𝗣𝗔𝗔 reporting. 𝗣𝗖𝗜-𝗗𝗦𝗦 investigations.

If employees delay reporting, the legal risk multiplies.

Read more: https://threatcop.com/blog/how-ransomware-threatens-compliance/

#Ransomware #CyberCompliance #GDPR #HIPAA #PCIDSS #CyberRisk #DataProtection #PeopleSecurity #InformationSecurity

Unemployment benefit fraud remains a high-impact identity theft vector.

Threat model:
• Compromised SSNs
• Fraudulent unemployment filings
• Downstream tax fraud risk
• Potential wage garnishment exposure

Mitigation workflow:
– Immediate employer notification
– State agency reporting
– FTC complaint filing
– Credit freeze across all three bureaus
– Continuous credit monitoring
– IRS Identity Protection PIN enrollment

Key takeaway: Administrative fraud often precedes financial fraud. Early reporting limits lateral exploitation.

From a security governance perspective, how should agencies strengthen identity verification in unemployment systems?

Source: https://consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2026/02/got-letter-about-unemployment-benefits-you-didnt-file-thats-identity-theft?

Engage below.
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#Infosec #IdentityFraud #CyberRisk #DataProtection #SecurityAwareness #FraudMitigation #TechNadu

Agentic AI moved in 2025 from experiments to production systems that take actions.

Ev Kontsevoy, CEO and Co-Founder of Teleport, says the real issue isn’t job replacement — it’s the shortage of AI-native security engineering talent and unified identity governance.

https://www.technadu.com/what-happens-when-experimental-agentic-ai-moves-into-production-interacts-with-systems-and-takes-actions/619740/

#AgenticAI #IAM #IdentitySecurity #CyberRisk

The alleged ANPS breach underscores a recurring issue: legacy systems acting as high-impact failure points, especially in organizations handling sensitive personal data.

Even when core systems are modernized, forgotten infrastructure can expose identities, medical context, and operational details - triggering GDPR risk and reputational damage.

Source: https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/ANPS

💬 How should security teams prioritize legacy system remediation?
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#DataBreach #LegacySystems #GDPR #PrivacyEngineering #CyberRisk #TechNadu

This case highlights how identity theft + automation + weak verification controls can scale into multi-million-dollar fraud operations.

Darknet PII markets, background-check abuse, and incentive exploitation form a repeatable attack pattern that extends far beyond gambling platforms.

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/men-charged-in-massive-fanduel-fraud-scheme-fueled-by-thousands-of-stolen-identities/

💬 What defensive controls actually slow this type of fraud at scale?

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#IdentityTheft #FraudDetection #CyberRisk #FinancialSecurity #ThreatIntelligence #TechNadu