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DESCRIPTION:Cybersecurity has an uncomfortable relationship with the truth.
  We know what needs to be done. We've known for decades. And yet we keep c
 licking "Remind Me Later\," ordering the triple bacon burger with a diet c
 oke on the side\, and waiting for the world to change.\nIn this talk I cut
  through the comfortable narratives we tell ourselves and force us to conf
 ront what's actually holding us back. Drawing on the history of threats 
 — from the 1989 AIDS Trojan to AI-powered ransomware and voice cloning 
 — I argue that there are no genuinely new threats\, only new dimensions 
 of old ones. The real problem isn't the threat landscape. It's us.\nSecuri
 ty is inconvenient. Its benefits are invisible. Users click "Remind Me Lat
 er" not because they're reckless\, but because we've failed to make securi
 ty work for people. Meanwhile\, the window for action on post-quantum cryp
 tography is narrowing\, AI is making impersonation fraud scalable in ways 
 never seen before\, and geopolitical tensions are reshaping the attack sur
 face whether organisations are ready or not.\nI'm not offering a silver bu
 llet — because there isn't one. Instead\, I'll ask the harder question: 
 what inconvenient truth are you still avoiding?
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LOCATION:Track 1
SUMMARY:Remind Me Later: The Inconvenient Truths of Cybersecurity - NS van 
 der Meulen
URL:https://pretalx.com/orangecon-2026/talk/DRB99V/
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