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AI and cybersecurity

Deepfakes, AI-boosted phishing, prompt injection, the AI Act: how AI changes attack and defence, and the usage policy your organisation can adopt on Monday.

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Presented byBelinda
11 min readUpdated on 2 October 2026

What you will learn

  • Understand how attackers use AI: phishing, deepfakes, CEO fraud, automation
  • Know the risks specific to AI systems: prompt injection, data leakage, poisoning
  • Gauge what AI really brings to defenders, and its limits
  • Place the AI Act timeline after the 2026 AI omnibus, ANSSI’s recommendations and ISO/IEC 42001
  • Write an AI usage policy you can apply from Monday

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