Security Visionaries

2024 Threat Trends

Episode Summary

In this episode of Security Visionaries, host Max Havey is closing out the year with a look back on some of the major threat trends from 2024 with guest Ray Canzanese, Director of Netskope Threat Labs. In their conversation, Max and Ray discuss the new frontier of AI-enabled threats and the proliferation of deepfakes used in social engineering attacks, as well as the landscape of nation-state attacks. Additionally, they also dig into the trend that surprised Ray the most, seeing phishing attacks continue to rise and their conversation concludes with a discussion of the cognitive burden that comes with users being bombarded with phishing at every turn.

Episode Notes

In this episode of Security Visionaries, host Max Havey is closing out the year with a look back on some of the major threat trends from 2024 with guest Ray Canzanese, Director of Netskope Threat Labs. In their conversation, Max and Ray discuss the new frontier of AI-enabled threats and the proliferation of deepfakes used in social engineering attacks, as well as the landscape of nation-state attacks. Additionally, they also dig into the trend that surprised Ray the most, seeing phishing attacks continue to rise and their conversation concludes with a discussion of the cognitive burden that comes with users being bombarded with phishing at every turn.