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Why cybersecurity needs to adapt in the age of AI<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.siliconrepublic.com\/enterprise\/integrity360-security-first-event-dublin-ai<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-03-27 11:31:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points.
\n The cybersecurity industry needs to \u2018fight fire with fire\u2019 when it comes to AI, according to Integrity360\u2019s Brian Martin.
\nEarlier this month, cybersecurity company Integrity360 held the Dublin edition of its global cyber conference, Security First.
\nHeld on 10 March, the conference saw cybersecurity experts and companies from across the country flock to the Aviva Stadium to sit in on a number of keynotes and panels, all exploring a wide variety of pressing cyber topics and trends.
\nRichard Ford, CTO at Integrity360, told SiliconRepublic.com at the Aviva that the Security First series of events provides an opportunity to bring some thought leaders from across the cyber industry together.
\n\u201cFrom inside Integrity as well, but also from across industry because I think it\u2019s important to get multiple voices,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

But what does \u2018security first\u2019 mean?
\nFord told us that the term refers to Integrity360\u2019s model and view of cybersecurity, which is \u201cto enable organisations to look at the full life cycle of cybersecurity, and look at it holistically, rather than just looking at one single segment\u201d.
\nHe explained that cybersecurity needs to be a whole-of-organisation priority, rather than just an IT concern.
\n\u201cYou know, it can\u2019t just be a technology, it can\u2019t be the technologists, the analysts, the engineers. It has to come from the very top of the organisation to think, actually, cybersecurity is important, it\u2019s one of our key risks to our business,\u201d he said.
\n\u201cSo we need to take that seriously and put the right effort, the right spend and the right focus on it to make sure that we are not the next organisation to be in the headlines and get breached.\u201d
\nHuman-AI era
\nThis year, the conference theme was \u2018Resilience Redefined: Securing the Human-AI Era\u2019, with the event examining \u201chow AI, machine identities and changing regulations are reshaping organisational defence\u201d, according to the company.
\nWhile AI has certainly become a top opportunity for today\u2019s cybersecurity teams, it has also introduced considerable cyberthreats as well.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s not so much that AI is actually finding new things to exploit, but rather that it can automate a lot of the activities that normally would be performed by human attackers,\u201d explained Brian Martin, Integrity360\u2019s director of product management.
\n\u201cSo therefore, they can find exposures a lot faster, they can adapt more quickly to blockers that they find, and then they can execute more and more stages of the attack autonomously and at scale.\u201d
\nChris Hosking, AI and cloud security evangelist at SentinelOne, said AI has impacted cybersecurity by \u201cempowering the threat landscape\u201d.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s made [threat actors] faster, it\u2019s given them more sophistication than they\u2019ve had before and it\u2019s also lowered the barrier to entry,\u201d he said.
\nHowever, he emphasised that AI also provides considerable opportunities for cyber defence teams. \u201cWe can have a phenomenal edge if we move to things like agentic auto triage, auto investigation. But we\u2019re really sort of only dipping our toes right now into what AI can do for us, but a lot of opportunity ahead.\u201d
\nMartin agreed, stating that cybersecurity teams need to \u201cfight fire with fire\u201d by utilising AI technology.
\n\u201cWe need to be able to move away from some of the manual and sort of fragmented visibility that we\u2019ve had in order to be able to respond to that increasing scale and rapidity of attack.\u201d
\nWith the scale and complexity of cybersecurity and cyberthreats greater than it\u2019s ever been, plenty in attendance at the conference had advice for companies that might be wondering how to adapt.
\nNiall Errity, director of professional services at Vectra, said that companies need to \u201cunderstand their own gaps in their own network\u201d.
\n\u201cI think a lot of organisations tend to be very one or two tool-focused,\u201d he said. \u201cThey think, \u2018oh, I have an EDR [endpoint detection and response] installed on my endpoints and I\u2019m perfectly fine now, I don\u2019t need to worry about anything else beyond that\u2019.
\n\u201cUnless they\u2019re doing the proper analysis in their own environments, doing proper testing to really make sure they\u2019re resilient, they won\u2019t really know their own gaps. So my recommendation would be to constantly look at what\u2019s happening in the news, what\u2019s happening with organisations. Take those learnings and test your own environments to make sure that you have those gaps closed.\u201d
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