November 2025
Soon after OpenAI released ChatGPT three years ago, it became fairly clear to security teams and others in the cybersecurity industry that generative AI and everything that’s come after it – most recently AI agents – would play a central role in not only how organizations would protect their systems and data, but also how bad actors would use the technology in their own operations.
The result has been an acceleration in cybersecurity’s long-running cat-and-mouse game, with organizations using AI to combat the rapidly evolving AI-driven cyber threats, only to see bad actors maturing their tactics with new AI capabilities of their own. It’s created what many in the field refer to as an AI arms race, and the rise of AI agents is only adding fuel to the fire.