Cybersecurity & Risk
Threats, best practices, security investments and risk management for Algerian organizations.
Cybersecurity & Risk
Dark Web Intelligence: What Algerian Corporate Data Is Selling for on Underground Markets
Algeria's Unwanted Ranking in the Underground Economy When Positive Technologies published its cybersecurity threatscape report covering Q1 2023 through Q3 2024, one finding stunned the Algerian cybersecurity community: Algeria ranked third among the most referenced African
Cybersecurity & Risk
Inside Algeria’s Cybersecurity Research Labs: What Universities and CERIST Are Actually
Mapping the Research Ecosystem Algeria's cybersecurity research output is larger and more active than most observers assume. A Scopus query for cybersecurity-related publications with at least one Algeria-affiliated author returns well over a thousand papers published between
Cybersecurity & Risk
The Human Firewall: Building Cybersecurity Awareness Culture in Algerian Enterprises
The Human Factor: Algeria's Most Exploited Vulnerability The numbers are stark and consistent. According to Verizon's 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report, approximately 60% of confirmed breaches involved a human element — phishing, credential abuse, social engineering, or
Cybersecurity & Risk
Algeria’s Cybercrime Legal Framework: From Penal Code to Digital Evidence in Court
The Legal Architecture: Law 09-04 and the Penal Code Algeria's cybercrime legal framework rests on two primary pillars: Law 09-04 of August 5, 2009, on the specific rules for the prevention and combating of offenses related to information and communication technologies, and the
Cybersecurity & Risk
Deepfake Defense: Voice Cloning, Safe Words, and the Trust Architecture You Need
Voice cloning technology can now replicate a person's voice from just three seconds of audio with 85% accuracy, according to McAfee researchers who tested the technology across multiple platforms. Fraud cases using cloned voices to impersonate family members are no longer theoretical.
Cybersecurity & Risk
AI Hallucinations: When Claude Fabricated Board Deck Numbers for Months
AI strategist Nate B. Jones recently shared an anecdote that should unsettle every organization using AI for executive reporting.
Cybersecurity & Risk
AI Trust: The Four Levels of Architecture Every Organization Needs
We've deployed autonomous AI systems into relationships of trust without building the trust architecture those systems require. That's the core diagnosis emerging from a wave of AI agent failures in early 2026 — from fabricated board presentations to autonomous reputation
Cybersecurity & Risk
Why Telling AI Agents “Don’t Do Bad Things” Doesn’t Work: Anthropic’s 16-Model Study
Anthropic's study "Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs Could Be Insider Threats" tested 16 frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, xAI, and other developers. The headline finding should make every organization deploying AI agents reconsider its safety strategy: adding
Cybersecurity & Risk
The Exploding Attack Surface: How SaaS Sprawl and Shadow IT Are Creating Enterprise
The SaaS Explosion Nobody Is Securing The modern enterprise runs on SaaS. According to Zylo's 2025 SaaS Management Index, the seventh edition of the industry's longest-running SaaS spend and adoption report, the average company now operates 275 SaaS applications in its portfolio.
Cybersecurity & Risk
Red Team, Blue Team, Purple Team: The Evolution of Adversarial Security Testing
Beyond Penetration Testing The concept of adversarial security testing is older than the internet. The US military coined "red team" in Cold War wargaming exercises, where a dedicated group (red) would simulate Soviet tactics against US defenses (blue).
Cybersecurity & Risk
Privacy-Enhancing Technologies: How FHE, MPC
The Privacy-Utility Tradeoff Is Being Solved For decades, data privacy and data utility were treated as fundamentally opposed. To analyze data, you had to access it in the clear.
