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Ultimate defender advantage AI and agents bring a great capability to the defender table.“ It’ s going to help us make smart decisions faster,” the CISO says.
Security has always been a cat and mouse game, with defenders reluctantly staying on the backfoot while attackers invent novel malwares and exploits. The asymmetry has been severe. With AI, however, those tables have perfectly turned. Chet believes that“ this is the first time defenders have an advantage”.
“ We are ahead of the game on the defence side,” he says.“ There is very little evidence of criminal adoption at scale outside of attacking humans.” Chet is referring here to deepfakes, grammatically correct phishing emails and similar threats.
“ What they don’ t have is all the GPUs to train their own models,” he says.“ They don’ t have access to data. We’ ve got smart scientists, people building cool tools and we’ ve got money to pay for Mythos.”
Looking ahead, Chet is very optimistic and excited about the possibilities, noting that:“ As fast as this is moving, there are a lot of opportunities for human creativity to find solutions to problems.”
In a landscape historically defined by defensive fatigue, this shift marks a turning point. AI may be the engine driving this new era but human creativity remains the compass. The asymmetry of cyber warfare has finally shifted, and the defenders are ready. cybermagazine. com 27