Dell’s security chief warns AI is lowering the barriers to sophisticated cyberattacks
SiliconANGLE Jonathan Anthony
Dell’s security chief says AI is making advanced attacks cheaper to pull off. That means defenders now have to use AI against AI, fast.
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AI is turning cybercrime into a lower-cost business. That’s the warning from John Scimone, Dell Technologies’ president and chief security officer, who says the old pecking order of hackers still exists, but the price of getting serious capabilities has collapsed.
Scimone made the point at the Dell Technologies New York Symposium in a conversation with theCUBE Research’s Dave Vellante. His line was blunt: the least sophisticated attack coming tomorrow may already be more advanced than what the world saw a year ago. That’s a nasty twist for security teams that are already stretched thin.
The basic disciplines still matter — identity, access management and detection haven’t magically stopped being useful. But the scale and speed of AI-driven attacks are changing the job. Yesterday’s playbook, Scimone said, is not enough when threats can move faster and come in bigger waves.
Dell is trying to answer that problem on its own side of the fence. The company is working with Anthropic’s Project Glasswing, which gives vetted organizations access to AI tools for securing critical systems. Scimone said the program has added members and has been folded into a broader verification effort.
His bigger point is the one security teams should probably sit with for a while: the answer to AI-powered attacks may be AI-powered defense. And for smaller organizations in particular, that could mean a future security setup run by one person and a fleet of agents doing work that no single human team could realistically cover.
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This is the part of the AI boom the sales decks always skip: the bad guys get leverage too. The sooner security teams stop pretending this is a normal upgrade cycle and start treating AI as an attacker tool, the better. The era of “just hire more people” is already looking quaint.
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