National Cybersecurity Awareness Month is a timely reminder of a growing challenge: In the age of frontier AI, time is the enemy of enterprise cybersecurity teams.
The old paradigm of cybersecurity worked on the assumption that organizations would have time to detect and address their vulnerabilities, but that assumption is now obsolete. Active exploitation of critical vulnerabilities can now be a matter of hours, down from roughly three weeks as recently as last year, according to Charlie Lewis, Rich Isenberg, Venky Anant, and coauthors. Advances in quantum computing are expected to put even more pressure on cybersecurity teams.
But the technology cuts both ways. AI can also help cybersecurity teams detect and respond to threats faster, including by taking on routine cyber work and freeing analysts to focus on higher-value investigations and decisions. In a recent blog, Lewis and coauthors explore how public agencies can put these capabilities to work while keeping humans in charge of consequential actions.
Explore the insights below for more on how organizations can strengthen their defenses against cyber threats.
The speed problem: How frontier AI exposes weakness in enterprise cybersecurity
How agentic AI can transform public sector cybersecurity
The board’s role in managing emerging AI risks
Quantum is almost here: Are you and your systems ready?
Securing the agentic enterprise: Opportunities for cybersecurity providers
Tech resilience for healthcare providers: Inaction has a heavy toll
HackerOne CEO Kara Sprague on how AI is reshaping cybersecurity