Defending the future
An interview on structuring cyber security services for both private and public sectors, where AI genuinely helps, and where relying on it becomes dangerous.
The premise is that cyber security is now everyone's concern, from children to seniors, and that as digital and physical worlds merge, enforcement and protection will increasingly happen online rather than on the street. To meet that demand across both private and public sectors, BrightMarbles Group's services are structured into four categories — offensive security, defensive security, security advisory and security training — deliverable individually or as a full 360-degree programme, for customers ranging from startups and SMBs to enterprises, government bodies and critical infrastructure.
On AI, the interview is specific rather than promotional. In offensive security, AI accelerates reconnaissance and report writing and lets automated tooling run in tandem with manual testing, covering more ground for less money. In defensive security, it correlates large volumes of system logs, speeding up anomaly detection and incident response — Microsoft's security copilots already retrieve forensic evidence in natural language. In advisory work, generative AI drafts policies and procedures tailored to a company's context; in training, it curates personalised learning paths. The caveat is firm: AI makes mistakes, cyber security rarely leaves room for error, and heavy unchecked reliance on it — plus feeding it personally identifiable information — is its own risk.
The educational thread is the part that carries the most weight. The UN1QUELY Cybersecurity Academy launched with three modules mirroring the service categories — offensive, defensive and security management — and grew quickly across the region, followed by partnerships with the University of Montenegro and the University of Kragujevac, regular lectures inside their cyber security programmes, and a hackathon for Montenegrin high-school students supported by UNDP and the Ministry of Public Administration. All of it is free, and stated as a permanent commitment. Personally, the interview closes on endurance sport — marathon training, obstacle course racing, trail races — as the thing that keeps the mind clear enough to make better decisions everywhere else.
Key findings
- 01Cyber security services structured into four categories: offensive, defensive, advisory and training — delivered separately or as a 360-degree programme.
- 02Customers span startups, SMBs, enterprises, government bodies and critical infrastructure.
- 03AI helps concretely: faster recon and reporting, log correlation for quicker detection, drafted policies, personalised training paths.
- 04AI makes mistakes and cyber security rarely tolerates error — unchecked reliance and feeding it PII are risks in themselves.
- 05The UN1QUELY Cybersecurity Academy launched with offensive, defensive and security-management modules and scaled regionally.
- 06Partnerships with the University of Montenegro and the University of Kragujevac, plus a UNDP-supported high-school hackathon in Montenegro.
- 07All educational efforts are free and will stay free — stated as a permanent commitment.