Politico October 29, 2025
With help from Aaron Mak
Jen Easterly thinks artificial intelligence isn’t just an emerging threat to cybersecurity — it’s also a key part of the solution.
Easterly is a longtime military and private-sector cyber expert who has served in both Republican and Democratic administrations, most recently as director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Earlier this month, she published an article in Foreign Affairs arguing that AI could make it far easier to discover and patch vulnerabilities in insecure software. These types of vulnerabilities are widespread, even among major tech providers, and often trigger federal warnings.
POLITICO spoke to Easterly about her idea that AI could help close those gaps by scanning legacy code, often the difficult bedrock of...
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