AI turns offensive security into a continuous necessity, CSO Online reports
ChuckDBrooks · x · 2026-10-08
A CSO Online feature on how AI reshapes enterprise security:
- A surge in discovered vulnerabilities makes patch prioritization harder — Horizon3.ai CEO Snehal Antani recalls that as a CIO, "the hardest part was deciding what not to fix."
- CSA chief analyst Rich Mogull: AI lets adversaries scale continuous operations and turns low-skilled attackers into high-skilled threats.
- The response: continuous adversarial simulation and pen testing to identify which vulnerabilities matter most; new autonomous tooling helps but skilled practitioners remain critical.
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