CyberEdBoard Insights: Ian Thornton-Trump and Martyn Booth

Inversion6 CISO Thornton-Trump and dunnhumby CISO Booth on Strategic AI Deployment Anna Delaney (annamadeline) • June 12, 2025

Every vendor claims artificial intelligence superiority, making it challenging for security leaders to distinguish between genuine innovation and marketing hype. "I need to understand how this service or the solution incorporates AI to create value in that product. If the organization can't articulate that, I have sneaking suspicions that they're all about trying to get a seed round and not about helping a brother out," said Ian Thornton-Trump, CISO at Inversion6.

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AI's influence on cybersecurity has moved from experimental to essential. But organizations need to avoid the "AI everything" trap. "It's probably been a facet of shoehorning AI to everything, as opposed to working out what works and then buying it where it makes sense," said Martyn Booth, CISO at ...