Defending against AI-related threats

Employees have long been asked to identify suspicious emails and unexpected requests. AI-generated content and deepfake voice or video introduce further challenges when an attacker impersonates a colleague, supplier or senior leader.

A request may sound familiar and contain convincing business context. Processes that depend mainly on recognising someone’s writing style or voice can therefore be vulnerable.

Your organisation needs verification procedures that remain reliable when a message or call appears credible.

Unpatched applications, excessive permissions and insecure configurations can provide routes into your environment.

AI does not remove an attacker’s need to find and exploit weaknesses. It can support parts of that process, making effective cyber hygiene and timely remediation particularly important.

Security teams need to understand which exposures present the greatest risk and direct limited resources accordingly. A long list of findings is less useful without a clear basis for deciding what to address first.

An incident can involve several teams, systems and business decisions. Detection has limited value if ownership is unclear or the organisation cannot act on the findings.

Testing should examine how technical controls and operational processes work together. Employees need clear escalation routes, while security teams need the information and authority required to investigate.

This preparation matters whether your organisation uses AI extensively or has not adopted it at all.

Our vulnerability management and exposure management services help you identify security weaknesses and prioritise remediation.

We support a risk-based approach that considers your environment and the importance of affected systems. This helps teams concentrate on exposures that could create meaningful opportunities for attackers.

Addressing these weaknesses improves resilience against a range of attacks, including those supported by AI.

Our network, cloud and identity security services help you improve the protections that restrict unauthorised access and limit movement through your environment.

The appropriate measures depend on your existing technology and business requirements. We help assess gaps and implement improvements rather than assuming every emerging threat requires a separate product.

Well-managed foundations remain central to protecting systems and information.

Penetration testing and red teaming examine how attackers could gain access and pursue agreed objectives.

These services help you validate controls, identify weaknesses and understand where technical or procedural changes are needed. Testing can also reveal gaps between how a defence is expected to work and how it performs in practice.

Findings provide a concrete basis for remediation and subsequent improvement.

Agentic AI-powered attack simulation extends testing to relevant AI-assisted approaches.

We help you examine how your environment responds to these techniques within an agreed scope. This allows your organisation to assess preparedness through practical testing, rather than relying on assumptions about what an attacker might achieve.

The value lies in identifying actionable weaknesses and understanding how existing defences hold up.

Our security awareness programmes help employees recognise suspicious requests and follow appropriate verification procedures.

Deepfake social engineering testing assesses how people and processes respond to simulated impersonation. Findings can inform changes to sensitive workflows, including payment approval, account recovery and the disclosure of confidential information.

The aim is to make secure decisions easier, with clear procedures that employees can use when a request feels urgent or unusual. 

Our MDR services help identify suspicious activity and investigate incidents across the technologies included in your service.

AI capabilities support the analysis of security data and the identification of related activity. Our analysts interpret findings, assess their significance and guide response in the context of your business.

Human oversight remains important when deciding what the evidence means and which actions are appropriate.

Our Threat Intelligence services provide insight into threats relevant to your sector, geography and technology environment.

This helps you prioritise preparation and testing around credible risks. Intelligence can inform security decisions and give teams a clearer understanding of the techniques they may face.

It also helps avoid treating every new AI development as an equal operational priority.