AI is breaking cybersecurity faster than defenders can adapt
AI is breaking cybersecurity faster than defenders can adapt
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-894151
Publish Date: 2026-04-26 04:44:00
Source Domain: www.jpost.com
It has become a standard line at industry conferences: AI will change the paradigm of cybersecurity, and defenders must adapt to keep pace with attackers who inevitably will.
While this is certainly true, the magnitude of the shift – one that is changing cybersecurity forever – is only now beginning to be fully understood.
This week, the US Treasury Secretary convened the CEOs of the largest American banks to discuss the implications of Anthropic’s latest model, Mythos.
The reason is telling.
These systems are no longer incremental improvements. They are capable of identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities at a level no human can match.
Artificial intelligence is transforming defense (credit: SHUTTERSTOCK)
Mythos has reportedly uncovered thousands of severe vulnerabilities across major operating systems and browsers, including flaws that had remained undetected for decades. This is not just acceleration. It is a structural break.
The key question now is what it takes to survive in this new age. The prevailing framing – that you fight AI with AI – is too simplistic. It underestimates what it truly takes to stay ahead.
The real shift is this: Attackers are becoming AI-native. They no longer need to manually search for vulnerabilities.
They can systematically discover, chain, and exploit them at scale. They can simulate attack paths, adapt in real time, and iterate faster than any human-led security operation ever could.
Defenders, in contrast, still largely operate with fragmented tools, manual processes, and reactive workflows – limited by human resources and capabilities.
A fundamental shift in the approach
What it takes is not merely better tools, more people, or incremental improvements powered by AI. What is needed is a fundamental shift in the approach:
- Fusion of every single signal and every piece of data to not just identify individual vulnerabilities but to map the attack chains that can threaten a whole nation.
- Full autonomy to move from reacting to…
