AI-Speed Attacks Are Forcing a Rethink of Incident Response
Summary: AI's main cybersecurity impact is speed: it compresses the time between initial targeting and business impact by accelerating reconnaissance, personalizing social engineering, modifying malware, and adapting tactics, outpacing incident response models built for human-speed attacks. Sygnia's CISO survey found 90% of respondents would struggle to coordinate stakeholders during a major incident, and 75% say uncertainty around legal and comms involvement delays decision-making; a separate report found 82.6% of phishing emails analyzed between September 15, 2024 and February 14, 2025 showed some use of AI.
What you should know: With 90% of surveyed CISOs saying they could not coordinate stakeholders in a major incident, the containment decision will land on leadership before the investigation is finished - and 75% already report that legal and communications ambiguity is what slows them down.
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