How AI Impacts The Cyber Market And The Future Of SIEM
Security Boulevard, Friday, January 16th, 2026
Security has always moved in waves. Not because we suddenly get smarter, but because we learn from past mistakes, identify gaps, hit limits, need to protect new technologies, and then go and do our best to solve those new security challenges with the technologies at hand.
The era of AI (let's be clear, we have had AI for a long time; what I mean specifically is the advent of Large Language Models) has shifted many industries, but specifically security in a particularly revealing way. AI did not just give us new tools to solve security problems. It invited innovators and entrepreneurs to revisit pretty much every security technology to see if LLMs could be useful to address some of the existing challenges.
But that's not where things stopped. More interestingly, some teams used this moment to question whether the underlying approaches themselves still made sense at all. Not just whether LLMs could help, but whether modern data architectures, different telemetry choices, and different enforcement models could fundamentally change outcomes.