Three Ways to Prepare Cybersecurity Teams to Navigate AI

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Just as in most areas of technology and business, artificial intelligence is revolutionizing cybersecurity — for better and worse.

Grabbing headlines, Anthropic revealed in November 2025 how malicious actors used the company’s advanced agentic AI capabilities to execute cyber attacks. These were cyber attacks “that can be run autonomously for long periods of time and that complete complex tasks largely independent of human intervention.” 

So as we enter a new phase of AI adoption, what does “preparing for a new AI world” really mean in a security context?

Perhaps more important, how can government teams prepare to be organizationally ready for the next generation of AI-generated cyber threats and adequately equipped with the right tools and skills to win the cybersecurity battles ahead?

According to the National Security Agency (NSA), while AI brings unprecedented opportunities for advancement to every organization, it also opens a large and volatile attack surface, which must be carefully and meticulously addressed.

Attackers are already using these cutting-edge AI tools to study organizational dynamics and look for weaknesses in an agency’s cyber defenses, from critical unpatched vulnerabilities to wild-card email rules that expose executives to policies that are unequally enforced on networks.

On a personal level, bad actors are going after C-suite leaders. AI-enabled cyber attack campaigns can blend multiple tactics. These range from malvertizing and smishing to multifactor authentication (MFA) bombing, where an attacker floods a user with multiple MFA requests, hoping they will eventually approve one out of frustration. 

In August 2025, a global study from Accenture determined that 90 percent of enterprises are unprepared for AI-driven attacks. Accenture urges tech leaders to embed security into the process of digital transformation and

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