The Threat Curve Reset: How AI Is Rewriting Email Attacks and the Defense

Phishing was supposed to be solved. Then AI gave the attackers a better toolkit than the people guarding the door. We saw a phishing renaissance that brought the classics back, credential theft, vendor impersonation, BEC, close to perfect now. Personalized. Multi-channel. Half the time it's a machine sending them, not a human. And forget thinking you're too small to bother with. A convincing attack costs almost nothing to deploy, so everybody's on the list.

The same tech is rebuilding the other side of the inbox. Forrester analyst Jess Burn and IRONSCALES strategist Audian Paxson sit down for a straight talk on both sides of the fight, with fresh Osterman numbers on where trust breaks and how teams push back.

Here's what you take home:

• Why email is still the way in, and how AI reset the curve on attacks everybody thought were dead
• What these attacks look like now. Flawless BEC. Deepfakes. Prompt injection aimed at the AI agents you already switched on
• Where the old defenses and the training fall down. Sixty percent of security leaders don't trust their deepfake defenses, training and all
• How AI on defense, autonomous agents and real-time deepfake protection, changes the math, and what to fix first

The attackers already have an AI strategy. Come build yours.

Featuring Jess Burn, Principal Analyst, Forrester, and Audian Paxson, Principal Technical Strategist, IRONSCALES.