𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀

This week I joined a group of senior security and technology leaders at Mercedes-Benz World — for a CISO thought leadership day where the thinking was as fast as the cars.

(𝘉𝘰𝘯𝘶𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰.)

The real value wasn't the cars. It was the room.

What CISOs are actually thinking about in 2026 isn't what most product leaders assume. The conversation kept returning to the same intersection: identity, AI, and trust. Supported by products, processes, people. Not as separate disciplines or disparate concerns — but as a single, increasingly urgent challenge. Who is accessing your systems? How do you know? And as AI lowers the cost of impersonation to near zero — how confident are you in your answer?

These are product problems as much as they are security problems. And the organisations solving them well are the ones where product and security leadership speak the same language. In the same room.

Grateful to have been in that room.

Thanks to @jamesthatcher @josspiggot @ethanrobinson @JamesKavanagh @jamesduggan — it was certainly a day of James's (a new collective noun for James' clearly needed!) — for your kind hospitality and making the day so engaging.

>𝘛𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵:
𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘳 𝘈𝘐 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘶𝘱 𝘢𝘵 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘸?


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