#ai-in-cybersecurity

#ai-in-cybersecurity

Even incidents like the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, which showed us how the cyber world and our physical lives intersect, stopped far short of societal disruption. However, the threat of cyberwar has been building, influenced by advancements in AI and increased presence of actors in U.S. systems and telecommunication networks. A military conflict could escalate these attacks to scale, crippling critical infrastructure and public safety systems like power grids, transportation networks and emergency response, even disrupting military communications and undermining response.

Most people know the story of Paul Bunyan. A giant lumberjack, a trusted axe, and a challenge from a machine that promised to outpace him. Paul doubled down on his old way of working, swung harder, and still lost by a quarter inch. His mistake was not losing the contest. His mistake was assuming that effort alone could outmatch a new kind of tool.

OPSWAT has released the State of File Security Report 2025, a study conducted by the Ponemon Institute to assess the file security landscape. The report discovered that 61% of organizations faced insider file breaches in the last two years, with each incident costing an average of $2.7 million. Furthermore, in the past two years, 40% of organizations experienced a cybersecurity incident costing over $1 million.

Every day, SOC analysts are expected to solve high-consequence problems with half the data and twice the pressure, leading to overwhelming burnout.

"It's not that we don't want to use AI - we just don't trust it to work reliably without us watching it," said one security analyst.