Artificial intelligence is changing cybersecurity so quickly that some of the industry’s leading researchers believe the balance of power may finally be shifting away from attackers. For decades, hackers held a structural advantage. They needed to find only a single weakness, while defenders had to secure everything. Now, according to executives at Wiz, the Google-owned cybersecurity company, AI is beginning to reverse that equation by allowing defenders to automate the work of their best researchers at a scale that was previously impossible. Few people have watched that transformation more closely than Gal Nagli, Wiz’s 28-year-old Head of Offensive Security. Rejected by Israel’s elite Unit 8200, Nagli instead served as a combat soldier and commander in the Military Police before teaching himself cybersecurity, becoming one of the world’s top bug bounty researchers and earning more than $1 million discovering software vulnerabilities.

Full report : Former bug bounty researcher Gal Nagli describes how AI is replacing manual security research with automated attacks and defenses.