AI-Powered Bots Are Blurring the Line Between Users and Cyber Threats

A survey of 300 enterprise leaders finds AI-powered bots increasingly mimic legitimate user behavior to conduct credential-based attacks, DDoS, and web scraping; many organizations struggle to detect and govern these automated threats due to slow rule updates, limited mature programs, and difficulty distinguishing good bots from bad, prompting recommendations to treat bots as identity-bearing actors and adopt continuous, governance-driven defenses.