Dan Schiappa, Chief Product Officer at Arctic Wolf, explains why AI may potentially eliminate vulnerabilities but can't stop social engineering and identity-based attacks driving modern breaches.

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Even if AI dramatically reduces software vulnerabilities, cybersecurity remains essential because most major breaches exploit identity, social engineering, and human behavior rather than code flaws. High-profile attacks like MGM, Caesars, and Change Healthcare succeeded through credential theft and help desk manipulation, not zero-days. AI-assisted secure development improves one input into security, but doesn't replace the need for continuous monitoring, identity governance, incident response, and operational security disciplines. Attackers consistently choose the path of least resistance, and that path increasingly runs through people and processes, not software bugs.

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