AI & Cyber Risk Presentation

This week I presented to the Independent Schools of New Zealand Association of School Business Administrators (ASBA) at their annual conference here in Christchurch, New Zealand.

I was asked to run a 1hr workshop on AI and Cyber Risk, allowing time for moderated Q&A. The session was well received and you can see a copy of the deck I used above. It does not include an AI generated video I shared as well, proving the point that believable content can be generated very quickly with very little effort/input, so I embedded it as a video below:

Beyond the initial prompt to create this video, I included some contextual information on education specifically (given the audience) and some slightly misleading information around Multi Factor Authentication (MFA).

To add some further real examples of Generative AI (GAI) I chose to generate unique images for the presentation with GAI – some of my favourites are below:

A pop vinyl image of me as part of the intro, including my role (Technology Strategist) and company I work for (Cyclone) on the packaging of the box

Two separate images combined – I asked the audience who poses the biggest cyber risk to their organisation – a careless employee or a sophisticated external bad actor?

The importance of being prepared: having a cyber response plan written in advance to guide responses whilst under stress is a key strategy.

I really liked this one as the GAI tool accurately implemented my prompt for creating a Company AI policy poster with two people drinking coffee in front of it, and starting with “Thou Shalt…”

Of course, when it comes to addressing Cyber Risk I’m a big believer in adopting a Zero Trust framework and I shared the following two slides on this idea:

As the audience was not technical we approached these ideas from a business risk perspective and what they could do as Business Managers to influence ICT teams internally or partner externally to move towards a Zero Trust approach

Only so much can be covered in 1hr on these very large topics so it was necessarily presented a high level but with prompts for them to think about as they returned to their schools after the conference.