Agentic AI Promises A Cybersecurity Revolution - With Asterisks
CSO Online, Monday, August 18th, 2025
Experts say agentic AI will rapidly change cybersecurity, freeing up talent to focus on more dynamic work. But with AI agents still in their infancy, they also urge CISOs to ask a lot of questions before committing to this new security paradigm.
The hottest topic at this year's Black Hat and DEF CON conferences was the meteoric emergence of artificial intelligence tools for both cyber adversaries and defenders, particularly the use of agentic AI to strengthen cybersecurity programs.
Although cyber defenders have relied on AI-like machine learning tools to automate tasks and find bugs for nearly 20 years, a new batch of AI systems and agentic AI tools powered by large language models (LLMs) has only recently burst onto the scene.