AI: The Cybersecurity Crisis That Vendors Love

RSAC in San Francisco highlighted agentic AI as a major risk and described AI as an accelerant for cyberthreats.

Incumbent vendors and startups offered potential solutions to AI-driven cybersecurity risks, and rumors circulated about new AI cybersecurity tools from Anthropic.

Attendees discussed headlines and stock movements; several cybersecurity stocks were said to be selling off last week.

Tom Pace, a 16-year cybersecurity practitioner with roles at PNC Bank, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and the U.S. Marine Corps, said, "Nobody thinks about security when they create code," adding that every piece of software has issues and AI makes those problems orders of magnitude bigger.

Rehan Jalil said agents are mishandling enterprise data—exposing or deleting data or entire repos; Michael Dolan said the way we think about security and governance is different; RSAC themes included safe identity, governance, agentic AI security, and supply-chain trust; Vin Sharma is Cofounder and CEO of a company mentioned at RSAC.