For decades, organizations quietly leaned on the assumption that attackers wouldn’t bother deciphering obscure, legacy systems—until generative AI entered the chat.

In this episode of the Security Boulevard Podcast, host Tom Hollingsworth is joined by co-hosts Fernando Montenegro and Drew Conry-Murray to dissect whether security through obscurity is officially dead or simply being forced to evolve.

Pulling threads from Kerckhoffs’s 19th-century cryptographic principles to modern LLM-accelerated exploitation of niche architectures like COBOL and SCADA, the panel explores how AI eliminates the learning curve for adversaries targeting technical debt.

They break down the critical differences between obscurity, secrecy, and deception, examine the psychology of bad security gambles, and discuss how architectural tactics like micro-segmentation can put defensive obscurity to work without falling into false comfort.

This and more on Security Boulevard, part of The Futurum Group Podcast Network.