Adversarial AI forces enterprises to confront decades of dormant security debt
Enterprise AI security has entered a phase unlike any previous technology cycle, as frontier models surface software flaws that went unnoticed for decades. The result is a threat landscape expanding in two directions at once: Defenders gain new tools, while attackers gain the same leverage.
That dual dynamic is pushing chief information security officers to rethink architecture, not just tooling. Service providers working across hundreds of enterprise environments are seeing customers hesitate, waiting for the market to settle before committing to a strategy, according to Vishal Salvi (pictured), senior vice president and global head of the cybersecurity service line at Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp.
“What’s different in the last six months is the way in which AI is impacting and making a big change to the ways we look at cyber, both in terms of how AI is deployed within the cybersecurity, but also adversarial AI,” Salvi said. “If you look at it in terms of what frontier AI is doing right now, it’s able to find out vulnerabilities which humans have missed for almost three decades. All these dormant vulnerabilities are becoming visible at scale. That is creating an unprecedented risk which we have never seen before.”
