Around the IT Block Podcast

In this episode we are taking a fresh look at how AI is affecting the world of cybersecurity. As we’ve explored on the podcast in previous episodes, artificial intelligence has opened up a whole new world of opportunities for our organizations, but it also brings fresh challenges for cybersecurity professionals.

We’ll be looking at the current state of play, and asking whether AI as a tool to defend us can match AI as a weapon to attack us, with guest Simon Leech, Director of the Cyber Security Centre of Excellence at HPE.

This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week we look at a story that’s been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations and what we can learn from it.

About this week’s guest, Karim Abou Zahab: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karim-abouzahab/
Sources cited in this week’s episode:
McKinsey report into AI use: https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/quantumblack/our-insights/the-state-of-ai
Statista report into cybercrime costs:  https://www.statista.com/forecasts/1280009/cost-cybercrime-worldwide 
Improvements to swarm robot insects: https://news.mit.edu/2025/fast-agile-robotic-insect-could-someday-aid-mechanical-pollination-0115