TECH & AI

TITLE: CHIEF SECURITY INTELLIGENCE OFFICER

COMPANY: PALO ALTO NETWORKS

INDUSTRY: CYBERSECURITY LOCATION: SANTA CLARA, US

Wendi Whitmore is a cybersecurity leader at Palo Alto Networks with over 20 years of experience in incident response and threat intelligence, advising global organisations on cyber risk and security strategy.

The paper also references that“ the path forward is doubling down on fundamental security controls and hands-on adoption of agents at every level, from the CISO down.

“ Every security role is becoming an‘ AI builder’ role and the barrier is lower than most people realise.”

The risk variable called time An interesting observation comes from Wendi Whitmore, Chief Security Intelligence Officer at Palo Alto Networks, who notes that when AI drives vulnerability discovery and exploitation faster than organisations can respond,“ time is becoming the dominant risk variable”. This, she says, shifts the main question from“ Can you stop the attack?” to“ Can you operate through it?”.“ At Palo Alto Networks, this reinforces the direction we’ re already driving toward:

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in model usage credits to Project Glasswing and additional participants in the effort to secure critical software from threats of the future

Platform visibility, faster response and containment at scale,” Wendi says.“ Because the gap between what we know and what we can execute is becoming the risk surface.“ This isn’ t about new controls. It’ s about operating at a completely different speed. That’ s the shift.”

Taking control The cloud of frontier AI and its unique capabilities have a glistening silver lining. Hitherto unknown flaws in our infrastructure are now being found and fixed. A mighty step toward infrastructure resilience, with frontier AI securing the front line.

At the end of the short, dark tunnel of security burnout and the burden of a patch apocalypse, security teams may emerge with critical infrastructure that is stronger than ever before.

“ This is about a moment of danger where if we respond to it correctly and I think we started to take the first steps, then we can have a better world on the other side,” Dario says. After all, in Dario’ s words:“ There are only so many bugs to find.” cybermagazine. com 129