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A hollowed out data layer is making CISOs fly blind into AI attacks

Help Net Security reports that CISOs are entering an AI-led security era with a data foundation hollowed out by two years of ingestion cost pressure, leaving security operations centers with less visibility into AI-driven attacks. The article warns that AI defenders will inherit incomplete data, undermining their effectiveness.

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The security industry is currently transitioning to an era where both offense and defense are AI-led, and every SOC operates at machine speed. However, what most CISOs have not yet reckoned with is that the AI defenders they are about to deploy will inherit a data foundation that two years of ingestion cost pressure has quietly hollowed out. The result is a security industry heading into an AI era with less visibility than it had … More

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