Ex-CISA chief says AI could mean the end of cybersecurity

Ex-CISA chief says AI could mean the end of cybersecurity

: Jen Easterly says most breaches stem from bad software, and smarter tech could finally clean it up

The end of cybersecurity as we know it? How AI is rewriting the rules of the game

At this year’s AuditBoard user conference in San Diego, former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) director Jen Easterly painted a provocative picture of the future of digital defense: one in which the traditional cybersecurity industry may cease to exist—not because cyber attacks disappear, but because they can be prevented at a fundamental, structural level. The shift? A full-scale reckoning with the fact that bad software …