Speak to CISOs and they will corroborate that autonomous AI agents now outplay humans at defence security. The number of companies specialising in agentic AI to beat bad actors is rapidly changing the landscape.
Just look at Cerby, who specialise in agentic AI workflows to govern and secure “unmanageable” enterprise applications, or Veratad Technologies, who recently launched the Veratad VX™ Agent Toolkit, giving third-party agents built-in identity proofing and age verification layers to interact with commercial services.
Non-human agents have a dual purpose in terms of governance and application security whilst there is a “growing mismatch between machine-speed attacks and human-speed response”. These observations are made in a new report published by Kai, a agentic AI cybersecurity platform, which is prominent in executing end-to-end security work at machine speed whilst retaining human expert accuracy.
500 CISOs who were interviewed for the State of Autonomous Defense Report recognised that AI attacks are far more superior than human responses and other vulnerability management techniques managed by humans.
“AI is transforming how organisations defend themselves and shifting the economics of cyber defence,” said Galina Antova, co-founder and CEO of Kai.
“The real opportunity today is trusted automation that doesn’t just prioritise risk; it eliminates it, giving security teams a clear path to zero. That’s why we built Auto Remediation: to close the loop between detection and action. The next phase of cybersecurity must let security teams respond at the pace modern threats demand.”
63% believe attackers currently have the advantage because of AI.
