FEATURE: DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
Reimagining security architecture that operates at machine speed
While AI accelerates software development by orders of magnitude, security teams operate at human speed. Traditional security approaches, designed for human-paced development and human attackers, are rapidly becoming liabilities in an AI-driven world. This disparity between development velocity and security capability is becoming actively dangerous says John Engates, Cloudflare.
The uncomfortable truth facing security leaders today is stark: within 18 months, most enterprise cloud security strategies will be obsolete. This prediction is not hyperbole or fear-mongering – it is the inevitable consequence of an unprecedented collision between AI-accelerated development and traditional security models.
Consider this reality: Google now generates 25 % of its code through AI, and companies worldwide will follow suit. Some smaller companies are developing 100 % of their code with the help of AI. Meanwhile, most security teams remain tethered to human-scale tools and processes.
Math is simple but alarming. While AI accelerates software development by orders of magnitude, security teams operate at human speed. Traditional security approaches, designed for human-paced development and human attackers, are rapidly becoming liabilities in an AI-driven world. This growing disparity between development velocity and security capability is not just unsustainable – it is becoming actively dangerous.
Three seismic shifts are converging to make current cloud security strategies untenable: the industrialisation of AI-powered development, the democratisation of sophisticated attacks, and the dissolution of traditional security boundaries.
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