Infosecurity Europe: Cybersecurity “Doomed to Fail” without AI

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Publish Date: 2026-06-02 11:00:00

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The rapidly evolving threat landscape and the way threat actors are leveraging AI to enhance attacks means that defenders no longer have a choice and must also use AI to help defend networks from from cyber threats – otherwise they are “doomed to fail.”

That is the warning Joe Slowik, director of cybersecurity alerting strategy at Dataminr, gave at Infosecurity Europe on Tuesday 2 June.

In a session on the AI & Cloud Security Stage, Slowik argued that there is a critical need for defenders to adapt to accelerated adversary timescales, and that organizations which still rely on a human-focused security operations center (SOC) will be left behind – and vulnerable to cyber threats.

“We don’t have a choice anymore. Quite simply, when it comes to security processes, those which are human-in-the-loop driven, just don’t adapt to new adversary timescales,” Slowik explained.

“Having a human analyst being able to dig into an intrusion and provide a summary of what’s going on is just no longer is practical anymore given the acceleration of adversary intent,” he added.

Cybercriminals and other threat actors have leveraged emerging technologies like AI, machine learning and large language models (LLMs) to enhance and speed up attacks, meaning that the window between a vulnerability being discovered and being exploited has significantly decreased.

That means that while security teams may have previously had time to assess their cybersecurity posture in the light of new threats, Slowik estimated it is “no longer practical” as attackers can be leveraging new vulnerabilities or attack methods within days or even hours.

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“I say this as someone who was skeptical of machine learning: the time has passed for skepticism, human-only solutions are doomed to fail, we don’t have the ability to leverage strictly human-in-the-loop to align with adversary lifecycles,” Slowik warned.

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