In this conversation, Malik Haidar brings the hard-earned instincts of a cybersecurity veteran who has spent years hunting threats across multinational environments. He blends analytics, intelligence, and business pragmatism to confront a fast-shifting reality: AI is now both a power tool and a
Malik Haidar has spent years in the trenches of multinational security, closing the distance between boardroom priorities and frontline incident response. He treats identity not just as a login but as a living system spanning humans, non-human services, and fast-moving agentic AI. In this
Janine Saintos sits down with Malik Haidar, a cybersecurity expert known for bridging business priorities with rigorous threat intelligence. He unpacks how a dataset connected to roughly 500,000 research volunteers surfaced abroad, what moved the needle in the first 24 hours, and how a UK-hosted,
Bugs that once hid for months now surface in hours as AI tears through codebases, configs, and clouds, collapsing the gap between discovery and attack while regulators recalibrate what counts as reasonable security. That shift is not abstract; it is operational, legal, and commercial all at once.
Malik Haidar has spent years inside multinational firms chasing down intrusions, deconstructing adversary tradecraft, and turning raw telemetry into board-ready decisions. He blends analytics, intelligence, and security with a sharp business lens, the kind you need when thousands of devices can go
Financial Services at an AI Crossroads: Scale, Interdependence, and Exposure Lightning-fast automation has collapsed the gap between bug discovery and breach execution, and finance now runs across rails so tightly coupled that a single fault can echo from payments to trading in minutes. Payments,
