Organizations that build visibility and connectivity discipline into how they deploy agents now won’t be the ones explaining a preventable breach twelve months from now.
Recent incidents involving internet-connected operational technology (OT), ransomware and unauthorized access to municipal water systems have demonstrated how fast a cyberattack can undermine public confidence, strain critical services and pressure organizations into making high-stakes decisions with incomplete information.
Cyber resilience has become the industry’s favorite word, but few of the organizations using it can show they would survive a destructive attack.
Attackers now have access to the same AI-powered tools that defenders use to discover weaknesses, and they can use them just as quickly. Fully autonomous cyberattacks are now an inevitable evolution.
Security and privacy leaders must bring employee-built AI workflows into full view before they become enterprise risks, especially considering the rise of shadow AI.
Security teams have relied on scheduled assessments for years because the model worked. Today, that assumption no longer holds. Attackers don't operate on that schedule anymore.
Agentic AI is exposing the limits of applying old frameworks to new execution models. The next phase of guidance needs to recognize that non-human actors must be observable, governable, and accountable from the start.
In just a few years, Anthropic transformed from a safety-focused AI startup into one of the most consequential companies in cybersecurity. But, aside from systems generally considered secure today, what does this mean for systems that have routinely proven to be insecure? This is where Microsoft comes into play.
Boards are starting to ask the right question about AI risk. Unfortunately, many organizations still don’t have a credible answer.
Most of the conversation around AI in cybersecurity focuses on how attacks are getting faster and more sophisticated. That is true, but it misses a more immediate issue. Many security teams are still operating in ways that assume a much slower threat environment.
