For 30 years, cybersecurity has operated like an emergency room.
Reactive. Crisis-driven. Always triaging. We are extraordinarily good at it — our detection is faster, our response playbooks are sharper, our incident teams are more capable than they have ever been. When something goes wrong, the modern security organization runs toward the fire with real skill.
But here is the uncomfortable truth that artificial intelligence is now forcing into the open: An emergency room does not produce a healthy population. Healthcare does that — through prevention, continuous monitoring, early diagnosis and a model of the whole patient.
Cybersecurity never built that model. We built the trauma bay and ca...