Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Tough Times Create Tough People, Easy Times Create

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..

Why the US Military Has a Zombie Apocalypse Plan

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..

Missing one person could shut down everything #BusinessRisk #Vulnerable

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..

The CEO Who Handled a Cyber Crisis Perfectly

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..

I Faked a Receipt with ChatGPT

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..

How Degenerative AI Exposes Deepfakes

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..

You Can Create a Convincing Deepfake in Under an Hour

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..

Scammers Only Need 30 Seconds of Video to Clone You

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..

The Top Industries Targeted By Deepfake Scams

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..

Why You Can't Trust Video of Celebrities Anymore

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..