Compliance checklists, tabletop exercises and confidence claims are no longer enough, and AI is accelerating the point at which that becomes obvious. That is the premise Peter Lee, SimSpace’s CEO and president, and Ernie Ferraresso, senior director at Cyber Florida, take up in the first part of KBI.Media’s KB On The Go series recorded at the 2026 SimSpace Summit in Orlando. Lee’s case is for closing the train-test gap, proving readiness by continuously exercising people, technology and AI under realistic conditions rather than asserting it. Ferraresso brings the state perspective, on why Florida treats cybersecurity as a strategic mission and funds a shared range its public-sector workforce can train on.
