Matthew RosenquistFounder & CISO Advisor, Cybersecurity Insights · CISO, Cybersecurity Strategist, & Industry Advisor

Risks of Disruptive Technology

26 Apr 2025 · 2 min

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In this monologue, the speaker outlines how successive disruptive technologies—cloud computing, APIs, and artificial intelligence—have progressively expanded capabilities and accessibility. He explains that moving to the cloud democratized resources once limited to large data centers, while APIs accelerated data sharing and collaboration. The discussion then shifts to AI, noting a transition from generative AI to a more powerful "agentic AI" that functions like the fictional Jarvis from Iron Man: an autonomous assistant that can execute complex tasks, manage email, calendars, and make purchases. The speaker predicts that agentic AI will deliver roughly 100‑fold value and tangible benefits, but also introduces far greater complexity, automation, and consequently a massive increase in cyber risk. He warns that as reliance on such agents grows, they become attractive targets for cybercriminals and nation‑states eager to exploit the expanded attack surface.

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All this technology that continues to bubble up, right? Especially the disruptive technology allows us to communicate and collaborate better. It enables us to do things that we couldn't do before. So when we moved to the cloud, we expanded what only big companies in their data centers could do. We expanded it to everybody. Everybody could have a presence and be out on that edge. You know, with the use of APIs, we now can share and collaborate data even faster. And, you know, most recently, right, it's the term of the last couple of years, AI. We're moving from generative AI to agentic AI. And if you think generative AI was big, stand by. Agentic AI is like its bigger brother. And we're just seeing this first sliver of what that's going to be able to do. And that's going to require more complexity, more access, more automation, and therefore more risk. But it's going to provide 100x more value and tangible benefits to people that are using it. I mean, it's what Jarvis is in Iron Man, right? It's an autonomous kind of agent and you say, hey, go accomplish X and it goes off and determines what it needs to do, what other tools it needs to employ, and then iterates on that and comes back and go, here you go, Hunter, this is what you asked for. Okay, great. But it's going to control our email and calendar. It's going to be able to manage our scheduling and learning and all of this. That's the next disruption that we're going to see. And as amazing as it is, I can't wait. I want Jarvis. It will also bring an equitable amount of cyber risk. The more we rely on it, the more it connects us, the more it can reach into our data and represent us, buy things for us, the more inherent cyber risk it is. And the cybercriminals and nation states, oh, they're drooling. They're like, oh yeah, bring it on. I want this. Embrace this. Rush as fast as you can to implement this because I know there's going to be weaknesses. I know there's going to be holes and I'll exploit it.