Nia
Luckey
Charlotte Metro ISSA Executive Board Secretary at International Systems Security Association
"Trust is the New Zero Day: Cyber Readiness in the Age of AI and Human Instability"
"Trust is the New Zero Day: Cyber Readiness in the Age of AI and Human Instability"
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Session: Trust is the New Zero Day: Cyber Readiness in the Age of AI and Human Instability
In the cybersecurity world, we train for exploits in code, but the most significant vulnerabilities often originate from human behavior.Breaches don’t begin with malware. They start with mistrust. A misinterpreted signal. An ignored alert. A moment when someone didn’t speak up, didn’t escalate, didn’t believe the system—or their teammate—would respond. These aren’t code-level failures. These are trust failures. And in a digital age where artificial intelligence is accelerating our decision cycles and quantum computing is shifting our assumptions about threat models, the next frontier of cybersecurity is not just technological. It’s human.
In this powerful, future-focused talk, cybersecurity strategist, U.S. Army veteran, and TEDx speaker Nia F. Luckey introduces a critical paradigm shift: Trust is no longer soft—it’s infrastructure. Drawing from her upcoming book Trust Hacked: What Cybersecurity Reveals About Building Teams That Don’t Break, and her signature framework, The Trust Protocol (trademark submission pending), Nia reframes core cyber concepts, authentication, encryption, and resilience, as systems for hardening trust across AI-augmented teams, cyber operations, and national infrastructure.
Key Takeaways
- Strengthen cybersecurity posture by codifying trust into roles, rituals, and escalation paths
- Reduce decision paralysis and “false negatives” by enhancing team-level authentication
- Embed emotional encryption into leadership systems to increase psychological safety and operational speed
- Architect cross-functional response systems that align AI, automation, and human oversight under conditions of duress
Bio
Nia Luckey is a cybersecurity risk executive at AT&T, an author, and a TEDx speaker recognized for her strategic acumen in governance, risk, and compliance. A co-author of The CISO Playbook, she blends technical expertise with leadership insight to drive digital resilience and trust transformation across complex enterprises. Drawing on her military background and executive experience, Nia is a global voice on the intersection of trust, technology, and human behavior, and an advocate for inclusive pathways into the cybersecurity field.