87% of Companies Were Hit by an AI Cyber Attack. The Fix Is a Skills Problem, Not a Headcount One
For most of its history, cybersecurity has been a contest between human attackers and human defenders, throttled on both sides by how fast people can work.
That throttle is gone. Over the past two years, generative AI crossed from the defender's side of the table to the attacker's and the economics of an attack changed with it.
The scale is easiest to grasp in one number. Cybercrime is projected to cost the world roughly $10.5 trillion in 2025, up from an estimated $6 trillion in 2021 and $3 trillion in 2015, according to Cybersecurity Ventures, a figure that, if it were a national economy, would rank third in the world. What is pushing that curve steeper is automation. In a survey of security professionals by SoSafe, 87% said their organization had encountered an AI-driven cyberattack in the past year, and 91% expected such threats to intensify...
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