For decades, cybersecurity was a battle of skill. Elite attackers versus elite defenders. The rules of engagement were understood, even if the playing field wasn’t level. If you hired better analysts and bought better tools, hopefully you hardened your systems well enough and built detection capabilities that wore out the adversary’s patience.
That era is over, and most security programs haven’t fully processed what replaced it. Adversarial AI has industrialized exploitation. What once required a coordinated team of technically sophisticated threat actors to manage reconnaissance, weaponization, lateral movement and persistence can now be executed autonomously, at machine speed, against thou...