AI as Both Weapon and Shield: The Cybersecurity Dilemma Nobody Is Ready For

Security teams have always been playing catch-up. New attack surfaces emerge, defenders scramble to cover them, and the cycle repeats. That dynamic is as old as the profession. What’s different now is the velocity. Artificial intelligence hasn’t just accelerated the threat landscape. It has fundamentally changed who can participate in it.

You no longer need to be a sophisticated threat actor to run a sophisticated attack. AI lowers the floor on technical expertise dramatically. A reasonably motivated attacker can now generate convincing phishing content at scale, automate credential stuffing across thousands of targets, and adapt social engineering scripts on the fly based on what’s working. The cost of mounting a targeted campaign has dropped by an order of magnitude. The cost of defending against one hasn’t.

This is the core tension security leaders are sitting with right now. And most organizations are not positioned to deal ...