Cyber magazine August2026 | Page 30

“ There’ s really a lot of capability in some of the models that are out there today that we ' re testing and using, It ' s a force multiplier for us”

Deneen DeFiore Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer United Airlines
“ There’ s really a lot of capability in some of the models that are out there today that we ' re testing and using, It’ s a force multiplier for us. It helps us summarise large volumes of telemetry and signals. It accelerates our ability to investigate, support threat hunting, improve security engineering and productivity and it helps us really move faster, too.”
A natural side effect of this is the need to rethink how a company runs cyber.
This includes how the workforce is trained. Deneen says that everybody has to be“ comfortable and confident” in using AI to manage digital risk across
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