Human Threat Intel Anchors ZeroFox's Security Vision

ZeroFox CEO David Muse on AI, Intelligence Services as Key Investment Areas Michael Novinson (MichaelNovinson) • December 31, 2025

Automation and artificial intelligence can handle an array of detection tasks - but not everything can be automated in high-context threat environments, said ZeroFox CEO David Muse.

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As threats increasingly originate in places like closed criminal forums or hidden marketplaces, Muse said human-led intelligence becomes essential to identify and mitigate risks that cybersecurity platforms alone might miss. Early signs of a supply-chain attack may now originate online (see: AI-Driven Cyberthreats and Remote Work Challenges).

"There are certain realities within this market that just cannot be automated at this current time," Muse said. "Things like darkweb exploration. Things like making sure that we're monitoring the deepest, darkest corners below the clear internet. Being able to perform those investigations and augmenting that with ...