AI-powered breaches provide wake-up call for incident response

AI-powered attack agents are automating all phases of compromise—lateral movement, credential harvesting, persistence—at machine speed, exploiting known vulnerabilities and misconfigurations faster than human-speed defences can contain them. Organisations relying on traditional incident response workflows and manual threat hunting are now substantially outpaced.

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