What Does Preemptive Security Mean? Here’s a Quick FAQ.

An FAQ-style brief argues for **preemptive security** in the age of AI-enabled threats, highlighting **predictive threat intelligence**, **deception/moving target defense**, and **Protective DNS (PDNS)** to block malicious domains before contact. It summarizes trends (e.g., rising ransomware and AI-driven social engineering), explains why **DNS** is a powerful control point, notes broad PDNS adoption across governments and major cloud/OS vendors, and offers guidance and metrics to shift from reactive detection/response to anticipatory defenses aligned with business outcomes.