Fight back faster: Why AI-powered defense is no longer optional for enterprise security

The piece argues that frontier AI is compressing attacker timelines and automating reconnaissance, vulnerability discovery, phishing, and lateral movement, turning previously human-speed attacks into minutes-long campaigns; it cites Unit 42 findings on rapid exploitation and emphasizes that most breaches exploit preventable misconfigurations and fragmented logging. The author recommends consolidating telemetry, adopting AI-driven detection and data lakes for context, and deploying autonomous (agentic) response capabilities—highlighting Palo Alto Networks’ Cortex XSIAM as an example solution.