Geopolitics and the cyber resilience gap belong in your threat model

World Economic Forum's Head of the Centre for Cybersecurity Akshay Joshi highlights that AI‑driven geopolitics and industrialized fraud are widening the cyber‑resilience gap, warning that these forces must be baked into every organization’s threat model. For website owners this means AI‑powered state‑backed actors and organized fraud networks will increasingly target sites with automated scraping, credential‑stuffing, and deep‑fake phishing campaigns. The convergence of geopolitical tensions and AI tools raises the volume of sophisticated bots that can bypass traditional defenses, creating higher false‑positive rates and potential compliance breaches, especially for sites handling regulated data or user‑generated content. Actionable steps: 1. **Update your llms.txt** to explicitly list AI‑generated bots you permit (e.g., Google Bard, Microsoft Copilot) and block unknown agents by adding “Disallow: /” for generic AI crawlers. 2. Deploy behavior‑based bot detection that flags anomalies tied to geopolitical regions flagged in the WEF outlook, such as sudden spikes from IP ranges linked to sanctioned states. 3. Integrate threat‑intelligence feeds that surface AI‑enabled fraud signatures, then automate rule updates in your WAF to drop traffic matching those patterns.