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.

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/ The 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 .