When Credentials Are No Longer Enough: Device Trust in the AI Era

- Patch now or cry later — editor's orders. AI didn't invent phishing, it just gave it a turbocharger and a thesaurus. Specops lays out the obvious: passwords, MFA, IP reputation, geolocation — all the trust signals we've been clinging to like a threadbare hull — are now trivial to spoof or bypass when an LLM can clone your CEO's voice and draft a flawless spear-phish in seconds. Who gets hurt? Anyone still treating "something you know" as a real security boundary. That's most of you. Stop kidding yourself. The fix isn't another password policy memo — it's device trust baked into Zero Trust. If the endpoint isn't verified, the relay window stays shut. Check the seals before you ship credentials. Delivery signature applied.