by amvandenhurk | Mar 29, 2026
By Ann Marie van den Hurk, Mind The Gap Advisory Only 32 percent of corporate executives believe their organizations are prepared to handle a deepfake incident. That means 68 percent already sense the gap. And yet most have not done anything about it. That is...
by amvandenhurk | Mar 22, 2026
By Ann Marie van den Hurk | Mind The Gap Advisory Why Leadership Teams Freeze and What to Do Before They Do When your organization encounters an AI deepfake, the first question isn’t technical. It’s structural. Who is authorized to respond...
by amvandenhurk | Mar 15, 2026
Why synthetic media is changing the first minutes of crisis response By Ann Marie van den Hurk | Mind The Gap Advisory Something interesting is happening in the current geopolitical environment. Conflicts are now unfolding in two domains at once. The physical one. And...
by amvandenhurk | Mar 1, 2026
By Ann Marie van den Hurk | Mind The Gap Advisory Deepfakes Don’t Break Systems. They Break Sequence. Deepfakes do not destabilize organizations because they are sophisticated. They destabilize leadership because they eliminate sequence. In a traditional cyber...
by amvandenhurk | Feb 22, 2026
By Ann Marie van den Hurk, MSc, APR, Founder, Mind The Gap Advisory Synthetic Media Is No Longer Just a Civic Threat. It’s a Corporate One. Political deepfakes are often treated as a civic integrity issue. They are. But they are also something else. They...
by amvandenhurk | Feb 8, 2026
By Ann Marie van den Hurk, Mind The Gap Advisory When Decision Authority Is Undefined, Legitimacy Gets Borrowed There’s a pattern that shows up in almost every modern crisis. It’s subtle. It’s rarely named. And it’s often misdiagnosed. When decision authority...