What agentic AI means for cybersecurity

Agentic AI technology promises a more autonomous and proactive approach to protecting enterprise assets. But deploying tools that require less human intervention also carries risk.

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• Amy Larsen DeCarlo, GlobalData

Security practitioners are engaged in a battle against an enemy that sometimes seems to have all the ammunition.

Case in point: Organizations worldwide field hundreds of millions of cyberattacks daily, according to the Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2024. IT security teams need as much help, in the way of effective tools, as they can get.

Enter agentic AI systems, which can autonomously pursue complex goals without human input. AI agents are capable of reasoning, learning, planning and making decisions based on real-time conditions, even in unpredictable environments such as the SOC.

CISOs are still in the early stages of determining how they will use agentic AI technology and how to best manage its considerable risks ...