Almost two thirds of UK workers have received no training on spotting AI-driven cyber threats
THE SO WHAT
Attackers are upgrading to AI while 60%+ of UK workers are still on pre-AI security training—human factors are now the softest part of the stack. CISOs should assume prompt-based phishing and synthetic identity attacks land by default unless they update training and controls this quarter.
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