Cybersecurity is becoming highly complex and is becoming difficult and expensive to manage. At the same time, there is also a shortage of cybersecurity talent while, simultaneously, adversaries are increasingly leveraging sophisticated attack capabilities. All of this stretches response capabilities. Smarter security solutions will mitigate many of these challenges through the incorporation of automation, data, and AI to plug gaps and provide security teams with better options to best-use their human capital.
Because of both the supply problem (lack of talent) and the demand problem (dramatic increase in volume/speed of attacks and AI-driven attacks), there may be no alternative other than automation and AI-supported defense.