When Cyber Security Breaches Are Inevitable, It's Time To Call For A New Approach

At the TED Conference in Vancouver this year, our Radical Innovators foundation hosted a forum with more than 60 of the world’s top CHROs, CIOs, and founders. On the agenda: how new technologies like AI and quantum computing can elevate our human experience, transforming how we work and live together.

Despite the hopeful purpose of this impressive community, we also felt compelled to host a session on a more troubling topic: how these same emerging technologies will supercharge cybersecurity threats. We asked thought leader and CISO of T-Mobile, Jeff Simon to facilitate this future of security discussion with an impressive list of very engaged tech execs.

Their interest in the subject was no surprise: The hyperscaling of cyberattacks in the cloud era is scary. According to research from Proofpoint, 94% of cloud customers were targeted at some point during every month of 2023. Of those targeted companies, 62% were successfully compromised. In the wrong hands, emerging technologies will increase the success rate of cyberattacks,