AI Fights AI. Zero Trust Changes the Rules.
Cynthia Kaiser — former FBI Cyber Deputy Director, now leading ransomware research at Halcyon — put it plainly in a recent LinkedIn comment defending the use of advanced AI models for cyber defense:
"The only way to defend against bad actors gaining AI capabilities is to use those same capabilities to stop them."
She's right. And the events of the past week gave that argument an unintended proof point.