AI’s expanding role in cybersecurity: Opportunity, risk and the new reality for businesses |
AI’s expanding role in cybersecurity: Opportunity, risk and the new reality for businesses |
Publish Date: 2026-06-18 11:30:00
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AI’s expanding role in cybersecurity: Opportunity, risk and the new reality for businesses
Artificial intelligence has taken over many conversations about the future of business, but none has grown more urgent than the one now centered on cybersecurity.
When Anthropic unveiled Claude Mythos Preview earlier this year, the rollout did not follow the usual path of other public product releases. The model’s ability to find and exploit software vulnerabilities was powerful enough to warrant restricted access through Project Glasswing, limiting early use to a vetted group of organizations focused on defensive security.
That kind of restraint points to how fast AI capabilities have moved past the systems many companies have relied on to protect themselves. InCorp, a business services firm working with companies across all 50 states, has watched that tension move from IT departments to the center of how businesses think about risk.
For organizations of every size, cybersecurity has become a business priority with little room for delay, especially as AI begins to change how risk moves through the systems companies depend on.
“What businesses are realizing very quickly is that AI has changed the speed of cyber risk. Companies no longer have days or weeks to respond to vulnerabilities. In many cases, they have minutes. That changes cybersecurity from an IT discussion into an operational business priority,” notes Clay Plowman, executive vice president at InCorp Services Inc.
How AI Is Changing the Cyber Threat Landscape
Security experts have spent years pressing executives to understand that the same technology strengthening defenses is also being turned against them.
Defenders use AI to monitor systems and flag unusual behavior in real time, responding to threats at a speed that human teams alone cannot sustain. However, cybercriminals have adopted…
