CISOs Brace For A New Kind Of AI Chaos
Help Net Security, Friday, September 12th, 2025
AI is being added to business processes faster than it is being secured, creating a wide gap that attackers are already exploiting, according to the SANS Institute.
The scale of the problem
Attackers are using AI to work at speeds that humans cannot match. Phishing messages are more convincing, privilege escalation happens faster, and automated scripts can adjust mid-attack to avoid detection. The report highlights research showing that AI-driven attacks can move more than 40 times faster than traditional methods. This means a breach can happen before a defender even sees the first alert.