In the age of AI, visibility isn’t enough. CISOs need new ways to build resilience
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AI is empowering cybersecurity teams and bad actors alike. Here’s how frontier models can help give security pros the edge and turn visibility into resilience. The post In the age of AI, visibility isn’t enough. CISOs need new ways to build resilience appeared first on Capgemini .
AI is empowering cybersecurity teams and bad actors alike. Here’s how frontier models can help give security pros the edge and turn visibility into resilience.
When a new technology disrupts an enterprise, the CISO suddenly finds themselves thrust into the spotlight in the boardroom. Naturally, the rest of the business has burning questions for them. The board wants fast answers on how new risk will be managed and how the business can take advantage of emerging technologies at speed and scale.
The rise of AI is exactly this kind of disruption, and it’s forcing CISOs to rethink how they build resilience. Security teams and threat actors now have access to many of the same AI capabilities. The differentiator is no longer visibility alone, but how quickly organizations can interpret risk, prioritize action, and respond at scale. Through our strategic partnership with OpenAI, Capgemini is helping organizations put frontier AI to work across cybersecurity operations, enabling faster decisions, faster remediation, and greater resilience at scale.
But why are frontier models needed to combat the latest threats? And how can enterprises use them to turn vulnerability visibility into resilience?
One of the key benefits of generative AI frontier models is that they accelerate visibility. But unfortunately, everyone feels that benefit equally. Mythos and other frontier models make life easier for cybercriminals and SOC teams alike.
Historically, security teams discovered vulnerabilities later in the software lifecycle, leading to expensive remediation and extensive risk. But now, AI-assisted code editors and agentic tooling are accelerating all aspects of cybersecurity. This is just as well, as frontier models are also empowering cybercriminals with automated vulnerability discovery, a faster way to generate exploit code, and reduced technical barriers to complex multi-step attacks.
Whether it’s cybercriminals finding vulnerable systems to exploit or cybersecurity professionals patching those vulnerabilities, the pace of the cybersecurity battle has changed forever. And it’s only likely to accelerate in the future.
The question remains: how can security leaders make the most of AI-powered vulnerability visibility to build resilience against AI-empowered cybercriminals?
First and foremost, AI tools have the potential to augment and empower cybersecurity experts. Features such as AI-assisted code analysis can help teams discover weaknesses faster, while AI models can prove or disprove quality to create a state of continuous readiness. AI also helps spotlight insecure coding patterns, discover vulnerabilities such as prompt injection and model poisoning, and improve visibility of the attack landscape.
Security teams often know a vulnerability exists but struggle to determine whether it can actually be exploited. Now, with AI, CISOs can validate what’s real and what isn’t. New models can accurately simulate attacker behavior, analyze attack paths, and automate adversarial testing.
AI can become a simulated attacker and test exploits in a context-aware way so teams can understand which exploits are real – and where to focus their resources for maximum impact.
Most organizations can identify vulnerabilities quickly. The real challenge is fixing them at the same pace. With human oversight, AI can dramatically accelerate remediation. AI can create recommendations, suggest code improvements, fix patches, and orchestrate agents to fix vulnerabilities in the future.
This is crucial, as cybercriminals can take advantage of exploits faster than ever, so new vulnerabilities must be patched in days, not weeks, to keep up and keep crucial systems safe.
In the past, scale eluded security leaders because the volume of work exceeded human capabilities. Across thousands of applications and diverse cloud infrastructure designs, the attack surface was almost unmanageable. That’s why our partnership with frontier firms opens the door to standardizing on the latest methods, delivering governance at scale, and creating consistent visibility based on the latest AI developments.
As AI reshapes the cyber landscape, security teams will have new tools to identify weaknesses and accelerate remediation, with and without humans in the loop. But with the threats created by AI, true security will only be possible when organizations can use AI to strengthen security while simultaneously securing AI itself.
From enterprise application security to application development and security operations, AI will have a crucial role to play. The real difference will be which partners are in your ecosystem and how much support you’ll get from them on your AI cybersecurity journey.
To learn more about the role of frontier AI models in cybersecurity, get in touch.
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