The traditional twelve-month procurement cycle is obsolete in today’s AI-powered threat landscape, as attackers can move laterally across cloud, SaaS, and identity systems in weeks, turning long cycles into material risk factors.

Attackers now operate so quickly that organizations struggle to operationalize a response before the attacker’s outcome is already determined.

Live demonstrations show attackers gaining full domain control from initial access in under a minute by leveraging AI-driven workflows.

This speed constraint isn’t limited to security operations; it affects procurement, governance, security reviews, deployment bottlenecks, and change management, creating a pervasive challenge across the internet security control plane.

Cyber resilience now depends on organizational speed—our ability to adapt, deploy, and operationalize defenses at the pace of attacks, not merely on detection.

AI-driven attacks have become the dominant threat at RSAC 2026, with AI involved in every dangerous technique on the annual threat list.