Speed, Judgment and Behavior: AI's Defense Mandate

Capitol Meridian Partners' Niloofar Razi on Innovation Sandbox, AI-Driven Offense Tom Field (SecurityEditor) • March 26, 2026

Cybersecurity can no longer stop at the system boundary. Organizations must understand how humans and artificial intelligence agents behave, and intervene before attackers exploit that behavior, said Niloofar Razi, operating partner at Capitol Meridian Partners.

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The attack surface has moved inward into agent workflows, development pipelines and the human decisions that attackers are learning to manipulate. That means organizations must look inside the build process and govern how agents act, not just monitor what they produce.

AI gives defenders the speed to match that threat, moving through decision cycles in milliseconds. But speed alone is not enough. "The system can do all of that in milliseconds. Humans do it in minutes if they're really good. But the judgment piece uniquely still belongs to ...