“Most security teams are overloaded, and not because they lack tools, but because they lack time and clear signals,” Newbury says. “AI earns its keep in the areas where speed and pattern recognition genuinely outperform manual effort: behavioral anomaly detection, early-stage threat indicators, and the subtle identity-related activity that often precedes a ransomware event.”
Check against delivery
David Tyler, founder of tech consultancy Outlier Technology, warns that some vendors slap the label ‘AI’ on existing capabilities while adding a higher price tag combined with solid product development and real advances from others.
“A lot of what’s being sold as breakthrough AI is actually decades-old technology finally being implemented properly; this isn’t necessarily bad, as good product management matters as much as novel algorithms,” Tyler says. “But if a vendor’s ‘AI security solution’ appeared overnight in the last couple of years, you’re probably looking at rebranding rather than genuine capability building.”
