Cyber Risk Management

The Stakes: Passwords Finally Met Their Match Breaches kept rising, help desks drowned in reset tickets, and attackers outpaced users with slick phishing kits that hijacked one-time codes and pushed fatigue, so a different login primitive, not a harsher password rule, became the only credible path

Market Context and Purpose Breach headlines multiply while payrolls barely inch forward, creating a whiplash market where risk soars as rewards stall and the professionals holding the line feel chronically underpaid. The security function has become a dependency for boards and regulators, yet

Stephen Morai sits down with Malik Haidar, a seasoned cybersecurity leader whose work blends hands-on reverse engineering with business-first risk strategy. With years spent countering sophisticated adversaries in multinational environments, Malik unpacks the rediscovery of fast16—a 2005-era s

Boardrooms cheered record AI rollouts while basic safeguards frayed, and attackers quietly slipped through reopened cracks. The tension between speed and security was no longer theoretical; it was surfacing in real incidents where sanctioned AI projects stumbled on fundamentals long considered

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

Malik Haidar has spent years inside multinationals translating threat intelligence into boardroom-ready decisions, bridging analytics with business impact. In this conversation with Jason Costain, he unpacks what an early, Lua‑powered sabotage platform reveals about state priorities, how k