Cybersecurity

At GETs 2025, discussions spanned global AI regulation, trust, human rights, and innovation.

The report notes that many successful breaches involved years-old common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs).

In the evaluation, DeepSeek-R1 LLaMA 8B was subjected to 891 assessments, with a failure rate of 61%.

Sumit Dhawan, CEO of Proofpoint, says that demand for cybersecurity is increasing in the rapidly digitizing Middle East.

These attacks involve sabotaging systems, locking customers out, and causing prolonged downtime, often to pressure organizations into paying extortion demands.