"Each business has its unique challenges, but one commonality today is that AI is poised to disrupt almost every business everywhere. Organizations aren't the only ones rapidly shifting to adopt AI-attackers are too, and they're doing it faster. The implications of this AI arms race are alarming for legitimate businesses around the world. Security teams must rapidly evolve their cyber strategy to meet these new threats, moving away from a reactive posture that detects and then responds after an incident happens."
"Anthropic recently revealed that a threat actor group was able to use AI (Claude) to perform 80-90% of an espionage campaign, with only sporadic human intervention, to attack 30 enterprises around the globe. The AI made thousands of requests per second, something even a team of highly skilled human attackers couldn't do. Anthropic concluded that "less experienced and resourced groups can now potentially perform large-scale attacks of this nature with the help of AI." That means the barrier to entry for cybercrime has dropped dramatically."
AI adoption by attackers is accelerating, enabling automated, large-scale campaigns that require minimal human oversight. AI can execute thousands of requests per second and carry out the majority of complex espionage tasks, lowering the technical barrier for cybercrime. Security teams must abandon legacy reactive models that detect and then respond and instead adopt preemptive strategies that deter, neutralize, and prevent threats before they occur. Simply adding AI to slow, expensive legacy defenses will not match agile AI-powered attackers. Effective cybersecurity requires proactive architectures, operations, and deterrence to outpace the evolving threat landscape.
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