AI Creates New Cyber Risks. It Can Help Resolve Them, Too

Key Takeaways

A new wave of AI-powered attacks is pushing companies to adjust their cybersecurity spending, according to a new survey of chief information security officers worldwide.

• The results show that AI-powered cyber attacks have become the top concern, cited by 80% of CISOs in the survey. Persistent concerns like cloud risk, third-party security, and endpoint protection continue to hold steady.
• To prepare for AI-powered attacks and evolving cyber threats, CISOs expect to continue increasing spend across cyber categories, especially in threat intelligence and application security—and increasingly on AI-enabled solutions.
• Given the evolving landscape of cyber threats, companies cannot afford to relax. That is particularly true for AI-empowered threats, which increasingly rely on social engineering and fraud...