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

Why Cyber Attackers Benefit More from AI Technology than Defenders #cybersecurity

2 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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Attackers use AI to launch social-engineering attacks and find vulnerabilities faster than defenders can respond. Defenders must vet tools carefully before deploying them in enterprise environments, while attackers move recklessly. This speed gap gives attackers the advantage.

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The very same tools the attackers are using to generate social engineering attacks, we can use those to help identify and filter them. The very same tools they're using to detect vulnerabilities in software, firmware, hardware, and people, we can use to also detect them ahead of time so that we can close them. So it's the same technologies, but they get to use them haphazardly because they don't care if it breaks. Whereas a CISO, I can't deploy an AI tool and risk it bringing down the enterprise. I have to wait until it's from a good vendor and it's been tested and vetted. That takes time.