TechSpective’s AI Security section covers the rapidly evolving collision between artificial intelligence and enterprise cybersecurity — both AI as a threat vector and AI as a defensive tool. This is one of the most active and consequential areas in enterprise security right now, and TechSpective covers it with practitioner-level depth.
On the threat side, articles examine how AI and SaaS environments have become primary breach vectors, why legacy tools like web application firewalls are failing against agentic AI traffic, and how AI-generated code is introducing vulnerabilities faster than security teams can track them. On the defensive side, coverage explores how AI is helping security operations centers move from alert fatigue to automated response, the rise of hybrid SOC models that pair human analysts with AI, and how platforms like Orca Security, SentinelOne, and Checkmarx are using AI to shift from reactive detection to proactive protection.
Broader topics include cybersecurity market consolidation driven by AI, the security implications of generative AI and large language models, and the long-term outlook for AI’s role in the security workforce.
Contributors include Tony Bradley, a CISSP-ISSAP credentialed journalist and Air Force veteran, alongside additional enterprise security writers. Content targets CISOs, security architects, SOC analysts, and enterprise IT leaders navigating AI’s dual role as both risk and remedy.
Web application firewalls have been around for roughly 30 years. In that time, web traffic has fundamentally changed—from humans browsing pages to APIs, bots, and now AI agents executing transactions at scale. The WAF hasn’t kept pace. And in a […]
Web Application Firewalls Are Broken, and Everyone Knows It Read More »
Ninety-nine percent is not a statistic you expect to see in a security report. But that’s the finding from a new survey of 500 U.S. CISOs: 99.4% of organizations experienced at least one security incident tied to their SaaS or
Most Companies Got Breached Through SaaS And AI Last Year Read More »
Most security teams have more data than they know what to do with. Alerts, dashboards, telemetry feeds—all of it pointing at things that need attention. The problem isn’t that they can’t see the risks. It’s that seeing them and actually
AI Is Helping Security Teams Move from Detection to Action Read More »
Human-only SOCs are unsustainable, but AI-only SOCs are still well out of reach of current technology. The industry has answered by increasingly adopting hybrid approaches. Today, hybrid SOCs are the method of choice for teams looking to leverage the capabilities
Why the Hybrid SOC Is Your Next Use of AI Read More »
Agentic AI has become the phrase everyone is trying to wrap their arms around. It’s showing up in vendor messaging, conference sessions, board slides—you name it. And yet, for many people actually running security programs, the definition shifts depending on
Agentic AI Workflows Are Reshaping Cybersecurity—But Only If We Use Them Wisely Read More »
AI-powered search tools promise something irresistible: type a question and instantly surface the most relevant information across your entire organization. It’s efficient, intuitive, and already reshaping how people work. But this ease of discovery also reveals a problem many companies
AI Search Is Exposing Hidden Access Pathways—Identity Security Must Catch Up Read More »
Security teams today are surrounded by information yet starved for clarity. They track thousands of vulnerabilities, alerts, and exposures across hybrid environments while executives demand clear answers to simple questions: How bad is it? What’s the risk? What should we
Why Security Needs a Unified, AI-Native Risk Platform Read More »
Cloud computing’s agility has permanently reshaped enterprise IT, but it also exposes new layers of vulnerability. Modern organizations run thousands of workloads across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud while orchestrating containers, microservices, and APIs that shift by the minute. Security
How Orca Security is Redefining Cloud Protection Through Context and Coverage Read More »
Cloud security has always been about keeping up with change. Containers, serverless apps, and multicloud infrastructure each forced defenders to rethink how they protected workloads. Now, AI is accelerating that evolution again — faster than anything before it. Traditional cloud-native
The Next Phase of Cloud Security Intelligence Read More »
Artificial intelligence has entered an era of autonomy. It’s no longer a tool that simply predicts or automates—it acts. This evolution, often called agentic AI, represents a profound shift: we’re building systems that reason, make choices, and take action in
Building Trust in AI Starts with Protecting the Data Behind It Read More »
