{"id":225034,"date":"2026-03-16T22:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T02:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/bank-built-its-own-ai-threat-hunter-because-vendors-cant-the-register\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T13:59:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:59:49","slug":"bank-built-its-own-ai-threat-hunter-because-vendors-cant-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/bank-built-its-own-ai-threat-hunter-because-vendors-cant-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank built its own AI threat hunter because vendors can\u2019t \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/03\/17\/commonwealth_bank_ai_defense\/\">Bank built its own AI threat hunter because vendors can\u2019t \u2022 The Register<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/03\/17\/commonwealth_bank_ai_defense\/\">https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/03\/17\/commonwealth_bank_ai_defense\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-16 22:37:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.theregister.com\">www.theregister.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s Commonwealth Bank built its own agentic AI threat hunting tools, because vendors are too slow to develop tools that can cope with emerging AI-powered threats, according to General Manager of Cyber Defence Operations Andrew Pade.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at analyst firm Gartner\u2019s Security &#038; Risk Management Summit in Sydney on Tuesday, Pade said he joined the bank six years ago when it logged 80 million daily threat signals. That figure now tops four billion, and he said AI is one reason for the growth.<\/p>\n<p>Pade told the event that the bank investigated attacks such as phishing emails and sites, and found the same code \u2013 sometimes including clear artefacts of AI coding tools \u2013 in many different attacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe lure changed, but the backend was the same,\u201d he said. Since the advent of AI, the volume of attacks the bank detects has also increased.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I joined [six years ago], we ingested 80 million signals a week,\u201d Pade said. \u201cLast week it was 400 billion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou cannot manage that with traditional cyber defences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pade worried that the sheer scale of threats is also a career-killer. He said the bank now hires graduates with cybersecurity skills, a change from his own career path that saw early career IT workers start on a help desk and learn infosec on the job. He said cybersecurity graduates now walk into a high-pressure environment that represents a mental health challenge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the things that really concerns me is taking that off the table,\u201d Pade said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted our first-level analysts the access the same knowledge our senior people have, in the fastest way,\u201d he added. \u201cThat was the tipping point: How do I take scale off the table, and how do I ensure all our agents are working in cyber in 20 years time\u201d instead of burning out?<\/p>\n<p>The bank\u2019s response&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/03\/17\/commonwealth_bank_ai_defense\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bank built its own AI threat hunter because vendors can\u2019t \u2022 The Register https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/03\/17\/commonwealth_bank_ai_defense\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225035,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2026\/03\/17\/shutterstock_cybersecurity_burnout_small.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[26,24,25],"class_list":["post-225034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-ai","tag-cybersecurity","tag-phishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225036,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225034\/revisions\/225036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}