All three senior security officials said that AI had been a boon to their organizations’ productivity. But they also warned that threat actors were doing the same, with risks to their companies growing at breakneck speed. For Boucher, AI has allowed scammers to create “synthetic human beings” that sound and even look exactly like another person on screen. That poses new challenges for banks and other critical industries who, along with their clients, are prime targets for scammers, hackers and foreign state-backed threat actors. AI can and should be used to defend organizations against threat actors, she said, but there are risks.

Source: National Post March 17, 2026 09:15 UTC