Why AI Is Good for Security: The force multiplier effect of AI in understaffed security teams — June 24, 2026

Published 24 Jun 2026 · ai, security benefits, soc, automation, cybersecurity news

The Current State of Why AI Is Good for Security in Late 2025 As we navigate late 2025 and push into Q2 2026, the rhetoric around Artificial Intelligence in cybersecurity has evolved significantly. We're past the initial hype cycles and the dire warnings of AI-driven Skynet scenarios. Instead, what we're seeing on the ground are pragmatic applications providing tangible value, particularly for the perpetually understaffed security teams I encounter in almost every engagement. The threat landscape, frankly, is a nightmare. Supply chain attacks have become the norm, not the exception, often leveraging compromised open-source packages or exploiting misconfigurations in cloud-native deployments. Nation-state actors continue to demonstrate an unprecedented level of sophistication in their lateral movement and persistence techniques, using living-off-the-land binaries, zero-days, and social en