Interview Of The Week

Interview Of The Week: Akshay Joshi, Cybersecurity Expert

Who: Akshay Joshi is the Head of the World Economic Forum’s Centre for Cybersecurity. He joined the Forum as a Global Leadership Fellow in 2015 and was responsible for strengthening engagement with organizations based in South Asia before taking on operational leadership of the Centre for Cybersecurity upon its launch.

Topic: The global cybersecurity outlook in 2025

Quote: “Cybersecurity requirements for AI technologies need to be considered in tandem with business requirements. There are numerous influencing factors that drive cybersecurity requirements, including the criticality of the business processes and control systems using AI and the degree of dependency these processes have on the AI system outputs; the sensitivity of the data and devices that AI is involved in processing and controlling; and the risk culture of the organization and its approach to digital innovation.”

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About the author

Jennifer L. Schenker

Jennifer L. Schenker, an award-winning journalist, has been covering the global tech industry from Europe since 1985, working full-time, at various points in her career for the Wall Street Journal Europe, Time Magazine, International Herald Tribune, Red Herring and BusinessWeek. She is currently the editor-in-chief of The Innovator, an English-language global publication about the digital transformation of business. Jennifer was voted one of the 50 most inspiring women in technology in Europe in 2015 and 2016 and was named by Forbes Magazine in 2018 as one of the 30 women leaders disrupting tech in France. She has been a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneers judge for 20 years. She lives in Paris and has dual U.S. and French citizenship.