Rethinking Cybersecurity Awareness in the AI Era
Dark Reading, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
Dark Reading's Reporters' Notebook video looks at how AI is reshaping awareness training, AI-themed lures and university AI security courses.
In this Reporters' Notebook video, Rob Wright of Dark Reading, Sharon Shea of TechTarget Cybersecurity and Eric Geller of Cybersecurity Dive discuss Cybersecurity Awareness Month in the AI era.
Shea says training should move beyond compliance checkboxes, citing a SANS figure that 19% of programs exist mainly for compliance, and should be tailored by role, delivered in short sprints and updated for AI threats, sometimes using AI-built phishing simulations.
Wright describes malvertising and SEO poisoning that push fake AI tools hosted on legitimate platforms to drop infostealers.
Geller reports that universities such as Carnegie Mellon and Georgia Tech are expanding AI security courses and certificates.