AI is accelerating the pace of emerging cybersecurity threats and providing “expert-level” assistance with vulnerability discovery and exploitation. This capability enables organizations to quickly find and fix vulnerabilities, but it also allows adversaries to find and exploit them just as fast.
For federal environments, nothing about the core defensive mission changes; everything just moves faster, and AI for defense can help shore up the existing security value streams at speed.
AI amplification can also increase scale, allowing adversaries to run more parallel discovery, targeting and iteration than most defenders are staffed to match. The result is a higher-tempo environment in which the number of capable threat actors can grow, the development of exploits can accelerate, and defenders face a compressed decision window.
Learn more about this risk vector and discover practical strategies you can implement in this new viewpoint from CGI Federal’s Victor Foulk.
