5 ways to fortify your network against the new speed of AI attacks

Mandiant's 2025 enterprise security survey warns that attackers are accelerating operations through automation and AI, shortening hand-off and exploit windows, and increasingly destroying recovery capabilities (e.g., backups) during ransomware attacks; the report highlights exploit-driven intrusions, voice-based social-engineering against help desks, credential-stealers like QUIETVAULT, longer espionage dwell times, and recommends stronger identity controls, immutable backups, expanded logging, and behavior-based detection.