AI in Cybersecurity—AI-powered threat detection, generative AI security, automated incident response, and deepfake defense to counter advanced adversaries.
AI agents that investigate alerts are now standard in the agentic SOC. Ten platforms show how vendors differ on the data agents can see and the actions they are allowed to take.
Jason Kinder, Senior Director of Corporate Security – Cyber Security Operations at Leonardo DRS, explains how AI is accelerating cyberattacks while increasing the need for human expertise in security operations.
Nethusha Ravisuthan, Sales Support & Operations Manager at Microsoft, explains why effective enterprise AI governance requires clear permissions, accountable oversight, and employee training to reduce security risks from unauthorized AI use.
Shain Jacob, Interim Chief Information Security Officer at Texas Health and Human Services, on why identity ownership and human validation still decide whether an agentic SOC is worth the tooling.
Most security leaders want agents handling Tier 1 work, but most hesitate to let them act. These five criteria, with the questions to ask vendors turn that hesitation into a buying process.
Georges Kaddoum explains why critical SOC actions still require human approval as AI takes on more of the detection and triage work.
Jake Hammock, former CISO for the City of Seattle, explains how unified teams and risk-based metrics prepare organizations for agent-driven operations.
Mohit Bansal, Senior Manager, Security Engineering at Webflow, explains why effective AI kill switches depend on early detection, tight permissions, and layered containment.
Scott Brammer, Chief Information Security Officer at RegEd, explains why AI security has to move closer to product and engineering teams as models, agents, and data connections evolve faster than centralized review processes can keep up.
Arpan Maheshwari, Vice President of Product at CloudSEK, argues that AI is changing which parts of the security stack companies can realistically build themselves, while specialized data remains in vendors’ hands.
Mario Manzano, IT Manager for Infrastructure, Security and Collaboration at Peco Foods, on granting AI agents authority the same way his team earned the right to patch a live plant.
Adedayo Adetoye, CISO at GLG, makes the case for running security as dollar-denominated risk management, where compliance builds useful organizational muscle but never substitutes for knowing what an attack would actually cost the business.
Veteran CISO Todd Wade on why OT defense must start with architecture, segmentation, and asset visibility as AI compresses attack timelines to minutes.
Albert Evans, Director of Cybersecurity at Tata Consultancy Services, explains why security leaders need to validate controls at runtime as AI accelerates the attack surface.
Md. Abul Kalam Azad, CISO at Eastern Bank PLC, lays out how banks are building toward autonomous SOC by anchoring adoption in governance and integration.
With AI outpacing governance, Skylan T. Jones walks through why security programs need executive access, mid-level authority, and human verification before AI can strengthen the operation.
Helen Patton, Cybersecurity Executive Advisor, explains why the biggest variable in enterprise security is no longer the human and what that means for identity, governance, and the future of the SOC.
Michael Orozco, CISO of IronOrchid.ai, explains why AI-enabled multi-vector attacks that break out in under 51 seconds are outrunning analyst-heavy SOC models.
Neil Watkins, Veteran CISO and Founder of MondayMove, on why responding to agentic AI calls for redesigning workflows and returning to fundamentals.
Nic Chavez, Advisor at Serval, walks through why deterministic deployments are becoming the bridge between executive AI ambition and operational enterprise control.
Jim Motes, SVP and CISO at Ryan, explains why AI agents behave less like static software and more like evolving non-human identities, developing behavioral drift, self-preservation tendencies, and loosening decision boundaries.
Eliel Oliveira, Information Security Officer at Knauf Digital, explains why AI-accelerated vulnerability discovery is forcing security teams into a new operating model where the real constraint is mean time to recovery.
Ankush Rai, a Software Engineer at Allyvia and developer of the Argus agent security framework, explains why AI agents carry more operational privilege than any prior software category.
Jai Sisodia, Managing Director of Cybersecurity, Privacy, and AI at Cycore, explains why most compliance automation labeled as AI is actually script work in disguise.
Jason Murray, Senior Security Consultant at Arancia, explains why AI-powered vulnerability discovery has overwhelmed traditional patch-focused security programs and shifted the real constraint from deployment speed to triage quality.
Mani Anand Sagar Yenubothula, Senior Cybersecurity Architect Specialist at LTM, explains why bans rarely solve AI risk and outlines the role-based training, zero-trust controls, and visibility that do.
Taka Ariga, Founder of Sol Imagination and former GAO Chief Data Scientist, on why AI fraud detection stalls between surfacing risk and acting on it, and how governance unlocks the production-ready phase.
Ralph Hogaboom, CISO at Washington State DNR, argues that LLMs exposed years of deferred governance decisions and that calibrated uncertainty will become a core workforce skill.
Jay Klinkowsky, an Identity and Access Management engineer with more than 15 years in identity security, argues that APIs and AI agent credentials have become a privileged identity layer that most organizations still secure like static passwords.
Mohit Bansal, Senior Manager of Security Engineering at Webflow, maps the Security Operations Center (SOC) model where AI handles signal work and humans own irreversible actions.
FinTech Deputy CISO Aby Rao outlines the path to AI-native security, starting with codifying analyst expertise and ending with well-governed AI working hand in hand with SOC teams.
AI agent hallucinations in the SOC look like a model problem. But new data points to a pervasive data visibility problem hiding in your SIEM's hot storage line item.
Aliyana Isom, Founder of Sekena Solutions and former Cybersecurity Program Lead at Nike, argues that AI can sharpen SOC work only when accountability stays clear and governance keeps moving.
Mohamed Mousa, Director of AI Cybersecurity and Risk at Magna AI, offers a framework for turning anonymous agents into governed corporate identities.
Dinesh Singh Panwar, Founder of Kshetra and former Westpac Head of Technology, discusses how banking enterprises must foreground the ways in which data and regulations shape AI beyond the low-hanging code copilots and quick-win automation.
Enterprise security directors say they're no longer asking whether AI can replace Tier 1 analysts. They're modeling what the headcount looks like when it does.
Arvinda Rao, Director of Compliance at Veeam, outlines the challenges posed by AI agents, evolving attack surfaces, and the limits of traditional, identity-based security.
The proliferation of AI builders is driving innovation in the enterprise. Rinki Sethi, Chief Security and Strategy Officer at Upwind Security, discusses the drive to adopt AI and how that's shifting the CISO role to that of an educator.
William duPont, CEO and Co-Founder of Applied Identities, describes the operations gap between autonomous agents and continuous human management, offering a new way forward through context-driven governance layers backed by cryptographic verification.
Teri Green, Vice President of Technology at Elevate Energy, says companies can manage AI responsibly by defining how systems operate, ensuring human oversight, and creating practical tools to drive smarter decision-making.
Yotam Perkal, Director of Security Research at Pluto Security, warns that autonomous AI agents create hidden enterprise risks, making oversight and real-time monitoring critical to stop small errors from escalating.
Varun Prasad, Managing Director at BDO USA, explains how to build enterprise-wide trust by integrating a framework for bias, risk, and transparency directly into the product development lifecycle.
Ben Rothke, Senior Information Security Manager at Experian, discusses how organizations can use disciplined self-assessment to cut through marketing and successfully integrate AI into their security infrastructure.
Michael L. Woodson, Fractional CISO and Chief Cybersecurity Strategist, warns that AI agents operating as unsupervised digital employees are outpacing the tools designed to govern them.
Olha Kolomoiets, Delivery Manager and VP of AI Engineering at Apriorit, explains why responsible AI deployment depends on transparency, compliance discipline, and knowing where human judgment must stay in control.
CEO, CISO, and Principal at SNM Consulting, Aruneesh Salhotra, argues that before they start piecing together AI solutions, security leaders first need to dig deep into risk and experimentation to adopt the right solutions.
Rajeev Kumar, Director of Security and AI at o9 Solutions, outlines why enterprise cyber defense must evolve from pure prevention toward resilience and risk-based architecture.
Michael L. Woodson, Fractional CISO and Chief Cybersecurity Strategist, warns that AI agents functioning as autonomous vendors are creating liability chains that existing third-party risk management frameworks cannot map, monitor, or govern.
Cybersecurity expert Muhammad Khizer Javed explains why organizations must redefine security foundations, combining human accountability with AI oversight to prevent systemic vulnerabilities in today’s AI-enabled threat landscape.
Strike48 VP, Tim Leehealey, discusses how building 'deterministic-yet-cognitively-inspired' architecture can solve security's biggest insights challenges.
Andy James of Custodian360 explores how top-down AI adoption often bypasses proper processes and security, creating hidden risks for businesses.
Savneet Singh, AI Ethicist and Founder of 5Virtues, outlines how AI agents are reshaping security risk and why human-in-the-loop governance still matters most.
Abhishek Singh, Technology and Customer Service Business Executive at Amdocs, says organizations are redefining enterprise AI by setting clear governance, guiding safe adoption, and maintaining oversight to create measurable value.
Cyber Cure Founder Shantanu Bhattacharya outlines how autonomous AI reshapes cyber risk and why proactive threat hunting now defines effective defense.
Dayo Adefila, Business Development Consultant at 3 Tech Guys, identifies undefined business outcomes as the primary driver of pilot purgatory.
Cloud security is facing a structural trust crisis. Sayali Paseband, Cybersecurity Advisor at Verisk, explains why leaders must shift from assumed trust to "verifiable trust" and how provable evidence is the key to the future of the SOC and AI in security.
Palanivel Rajan Mylsamy, Director of Engineering Program Management at Cisco, explains why cybersecurity now underpins how enterprises scale AI with trust and operational discipline.
Gary Hibberd, Co-Founder of Consultants Like Us, explains why AI is pushing cybersecurity leaders back to human-centric fundamentals.
Ronaldo Andrade, CISO at Ivy Group S/A, explains why Shadow AI represents a structural accountability failure, not a user behavior problem.
Is the "Shadow AI" used by your employees a threat or an opportunity? Boris Khazin, a Strategic GRC & Digital Risk Executive at ClearView MRI, argues it's a source of vital business intelligence.
Leo Simonovich, a VP of Industrial Cyber and Digital Security at Siemens Energy, explains why AI data centers need grid-critical protections.
Martin Astley, Chief Information Security Officer at Astley Digital Group, sees AI’s biggest risk as internal, with employees sharing data freely while providers offer little visibility or control.
John Sapp, VP of Information Security and CISO at Texas Mutual Insurance Company, lays out why SOCs must pair AI speed with human judgment to survive machine-speed attacks.
José Antonio Márquez Russo, Principal Scientist at Adobe, warns that agentic AI browsers can bypass long-standing web safeguards and introduce new enterprise risk.
Ronnie Manning, Chief Brand Advocate at Yubico, outlines how sophisicated AI phishing is pushing companies toward stronger, phishing-resistant security.
Jess Vachon, Global CISO for a leading financial services firm, explains why enterprise defenses must shift from periodic security to perpetual vigilance to outpace AI-powered cyberattacks.
Amazon sues AI startup Perplexity to block its Comet shopping agent, escalating a legal battle over how AI agents can operate online.
A new report finds companies are adopting AI faster than they can implement security controls, creating significant unmanaged risk.
