Mastercard’s Deputy Chief Security Officer Alissa (Dr Jay) Abdullah, PhD on AI & Cybersecurity
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine
Sausalito, Calif. – Dec. 15, 2025
Thanks to artificial intelligence (AI), cybercrime and, as a result, cybersecurity are evolving rapidly, leaving businesses and individuals across the world scrambling to catch up.
Cybercrime Magazine caught up with Mastercard’s Deputy CSO Alissa (Dr Jay) Abdullah to discuss the field’s explosive growth.
Dr Jay looks at the past, present, and future of AI and cybersecurity in a new three-minute video, a must-watch for consumers, small-to-midsize businesses, and large enterprises.
You can learn more from Dr Jay on “Mastering Cyber“, a weekly one-minute series on the Cybercrime Magazine Podcast to help you maneuver cybersecurity industry tips, terms, and topics.
Whether you’re a C-suite executive, CIO, CISO, IT security professional, engineer, or developer, or a small business owner, student, parent, or educator, Dr Jay’s podcast series speaks to you.
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