Eye on A.I. · Thursday, September 10, 2026
Trent Telford argues that traditional cybersecurity models, focused on building 'walls' around networks, are failing due to the increasing borderless nature of technology. He highlights how the proliferation of smartphones, AI, drones, and multinational corporations disperses data beyond any traditional boundaries, rendering perimeter defenses obsolete.
“And now, and we'll talk about this a little bit more, but all that AI side of things and autonomous and drones and landscapes, everything else out there. I mean, anybody, whether you're a tech person or not, you'd get the picture, right? Like you can visualize all those drones in the air, all this AI, everything. And these are borderless. They are literally borderless. There is no boundary.”
“So the old, you know, put the big lock on the door, that that model's in trouble.”
“Yeah. And also with regard to being borderless, you've got multinationals. I mean, there's no longer a locality that you build the wall around. It's dispersed.”