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because for more than two decades of leading roles in the banking and real estate sales industry, she's been a genius.

Most notably, she's had books called Most of the Living Check to Monday, The Real Deal About Money, Credit, and Financial Security, which achieved bestseller status at the Congressional Black Caucus Conference Book Pavilion.

Lynn, that's Dr. Lynn Richardson, was a featured regular on the Steve Harvey TV talk show.

Access Hollywood Live, she's been a regular on that.

Now, its highest priority was preventing terrorist and terrorist weapons from entering the country.

Customs moved to Alert Level 1, the highest security alert in its history.

Inspections intensified, and traffic began backing up at Americans' borders.

At the northern border, trucks waited as long as 10 to 12 hours.

From those discussions came Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism, or as we know it, CTPAT.

The program began with seven charter companies, including Target, and was formally launched on April 16th, 2002.

25 years later, CTPAT is familiar to almost everyone working in trade compliance and supply chain security.

But before the standards, the validations, the portals, and the paperwork, it was an idea built during a national crisis by people trying to solve an urgent problem.

Let's get more capacity.

But also when we collaborate with big pharma, you know, there are data and security requirements and they don't want their data, you know, on our machines and we don't want our code on their machines.

And so we'll spin up an AWS virtual private cloud and that's where we do the compute and then it's secure and And it's fast and it's important for us to be able to deliver the services.

And it's also locally stored, which could be, based on the industry, a regulatory requirement.

All right, welcome back to another episode of This Week in AI Security, coming to you for the week of the 10th of September, 2026.

We've got several stories to get into on a couple of themes today, as well as a couple of things that might be, strictly speaking, outside the security lens, but I do want to touch on because they are very, very topical, and they are things that are really relevant to discuss in the kind of modern context of where we as an industry are with AI adoption.

So let's dive in on a couple of the stories.

So first, we have AI agents carrying out every step of a ransomware attack and leaving the victim an 80 page security audit.

And this was kind of interesting from the perspective of really the 80 page audit.

We have talked before on This Week in AI Security about kind of AI orchestrated, AI directed attacks, etc., And by the way, kudos over to the team at Unit 42 Palo Alto Networks and their incident response on looking at this.

So the AI agent in this case handled reconnaissance.

This was an API breach using credential scraping to find a path in to use that, then secrets management and, or sorry, secrets theft.

Measures taken to protect accounts and devices from unauthorized access, like passwords or two-factor authentication.

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