Cybersecurity and the end of AI's Wild West era | TechTarget

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For the past decade, the promise of AI transforming cybersecurity has been a constant headline. Tech giants and startups alike have deployed an array of AI-enabled products and services, each designed to enhance security operations and make organizations more secure in an evolving threat landscape.

Stanford University's 2026 "AI Index Report" found that 8,909 newly funded AI companies emerged in the U.S. between 2013 and 2025. The choices for CISOs are only growing as the AI bubble continues to expand. When and if it will burst is anyone's guess.

After years of experimental adoption and vendor proliferation, security leaders now possess enough operational data to make informed decisions. Multi-year deployment histories, incident response metrics and lessons learned from failed pilots have given CISOs the knowledge to distinguish effective AI security tools from tools that didn't measure up.

In other words, the industry is moving from the Wild West -- a...

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