Why prevention must replace detection in modern cybersecurity – Intelligent CISO
Why prevention must replace detection in modern cybersecurity – Intelligent CISO
Publish Date: 2026-05-08 04:07:00
Source Domain: www.intelligentciso.com
Insights from Check Point’s Cyber Security Report 2026 reveal a fundamental shift in the threat landscape – from technical exploitation to highly sophisticated human targeting. As ransomware evolves, AI accelerates threat activity and attack surfaces expand, Ram Narayanan, Country Manager at Check Point Software Technologies, Middle East, explains that organisations must prioritise continuous exposure management, unified protection frameworks and AI-driven defence to stay resilient in an increasingly complex digital environment.
Ram Narayanan, Country Manager at Check Point Software Technologies, Middle East
The report describes a shift from technical exploitation to human exploitation, does this fundamentally change how organisations should think about cybersecurity?
Organisations should think about a combination of technical and human exploitation. For years, cybersecurity strategies were mostly built around protecting infrastructure, patching systems and managing vulnerabilities. While those remain important, the report shows that attackers are increasingly choosing a different path, one that goes through people rather than systems.
AI has changed the nature of social engineering. Messages are now highly personalised, context-aware and often indistinguishable from legitimate communication. More importantly, attacks are no longer limited to email. They span voice calls, collaboration tools, browsers and even AI applications that employees interact with daily.
This means organisations need to rethink their approach. Cybersecurity is no longer just about securing networks or endpoints in isolation; it is about securing the entire user experience. Protection needs to be embedded into the way people work, rather than relying on individuals to identify threats on their own.
In practical terms, this shifts the focus towards securing the workspace itself, ensuring that users are protected consistently across every channel they use. The goal…
