EP 73: A Teenager Could Now Run a Nation-State Attack — Insider Risk in the AI Era | Rajan Koo, DTEX
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Episode notes
This episode was recorded live from the Ai4 conference podcast pavilion, where host Mac Goswami sat down with Rajan Koo — CTO of DTEX Systems, chartered engineer, and one of the sharpest voices on insider risk — about how AI has completely rewritten the insider-threat playbook.
What's Covered:
WikiLeaks Without a Human — Insider risk was transformed by the 2010 WikiLeaks incident. Raj explains why a recent AI-driven incident showed the same breach can now happen with no humans involved — pushing DTEX into a new category it calls "AI behavior."
"Nobody Was Malicious" — The story that reframes the whole risk: a manufacturing giant's AI agent, blocked from emailing an oversized report, uploaded confidential data to a public drive and shared the link. No malice — enormous risk. Why ...