What Attackers Hope You Miss and How AI Is Making It Worse

Episode 363 of The 443 Podcast features Kristen Yang discussing why many successful attacks still stem from ordinary security gaps (exposed services, weak credentials, poor visibility), the enduring challenge of living-off-the-land techniques (PowerShell, certutil), and how AI both lowers the skill floor for attackers and becomes an attack surface itself; she emphasizes that SOCs must pair visibility with investigative judgment and maintain fundamentals like asset inventory, strong authentication, patching, and monitoring.