Michael Bird

Things like AI can be used to spot threats or really anything that doesn't look right to try and keep our organizations and our data safe.

Have no fear, Sam, it will come up in today's interview.

However, my conversation with David Hughes, Senior VP of SASE and Security at HP Networking covers far more than just zero trust because even networks themselves can be used as a sensor for security.

However, before we get into any of that, I wanted to set the scene a little bit.

So the first thing I asked David to tell me was, what does the current threat landscape actually look like in 2026?

And I guess with AI, from an attacker's perspective, it makes everything much easier, maybe more automated.

AI doesn't need to sleep.

No.

Can you just sort of describe some of the more common threats that we have at the moment?

There's what's called spear phishing, which is where you're specifically targeting a specific person with specific information about them.

But presumably with the GenSec AI, that could be all automated.

You can go and find all that information at scale and you can target them that scale.

And deepfaked audio video has developed so quickly.

It's getting more and more impressive and more and more realistic.

And that makes those attacks potentially more viable at scale.

So HP Threat Labs have recently released their inaugural report.

What exactly is HP Threat Labs?

So, David, can you give some of the highlights of the report?

Are these emerging threats or have these sort of threats been around for a while, but they're maybe changing?

So how should organizations combat that sort of thing?