{"slug": "a-hollowed-out-data-layer-is-making-cisos-fly-blind-into-ai-attacks", "title": "A hollowed out data layer is making CISOs fly blind into AI attacks", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "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 ](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/18/siem-data-blind-spots-mapping/)\n\nThe post [A hollowed out data layer is making CISOs fly blind into AI attacks](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/18/siem-data-blind-spots-mapping/) appeared first on [Help Net Security](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-hollowed-out-data-layer-is-making-cisos-fly-blind-into-ai-attacks", "canonical_source": "https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/18/siem-data-blind-spots-mapping/", "published_at": "2026-08-18 05:00:30+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-18 05:10:44.573950+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Help Net Security"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-hollowed-out-data-layer-is-making-cisos-fly-blind-into-ai-attacks", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-hollowed-out-data-layer-is-making-cisos-fly-blind-into-ai-attacks.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-hollowed-out-data-layer-is-making-cisos-fly-blind-into-ai-attacks.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-hollowed-out-data-layer-is-making-cisos-fly-blind-into-ai-attacks.jsonld"}}