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Cybersecurity Gets an AI Overhaul, but the Mess Keeps Its Seniority
· New York time
Alex Stamos, chief security officer at Cognition and a longtime cybersecurity expert, discusses the state of digital defense in the first installment of a Verge podcast series on AI in real life. The conversation addresses a field already dealing with serious problems as AI changes the environment around it. For organizations responsible for digital systems, that means assessing new tools alongside the existing work of protecting infrastructure. A new model does not make the old responsibility disappear, and a dramatic description of the threat does not itself secure a network. The podcast's subject is the difficult state of cybersecurity, with Stamos bringing the perspective of a practitioner who has spent years in the field. That experience matters in a market where every new technology arrives accompanied by confident claims about what it will fix. Security teams, by contrast, have to live with the systems after the presentation ends. The industry's favorite announcement is a solution that changes everything. The less glamorous assignment is deciding how new capabilities fit into a defense that still needs attention tomorrow. AI may bring a fresh vocabulary to the discussion, but the old question remains stubbornly employed: who is checking the system?
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