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Why cybersecurity needs hybrid AI, not platform consolidation

Artificial intelligence has transformed enterprise cybersecurity into a machine-speed quickdraw contest. Today, threat actors routinely use AI and automation to launch sophisticated, multi-stage campaigns that exploit gaps between disconnected security tools. Once inside a network, modern attacks move laterally across cloud environments, endpoints, and applications within minutes. Because defensive windows have shrunk from hours to seconds, security teams must rely on AI-driven analytics to correlate threat telemetry and trigger automated remediation before a breach spreads. To achieve this coordination, many organizations are aggressively pursuing platform consolidation. The logic is simple: by replacing a fragmented patchwork of niche security vendors with a single, unified security platform, a Security Operations Centre (SOC) can centralize its data, simplify management, and orchestrate automated responses more fluidly.

Full opinion : Artificial intelligence has transformed enterprise cybersecurity into a machine-speed quickdraw contest.