India, May 12 -- AI has changed cybersecurity from a contest of alerts into a contest of speed. Attackers are using AI to find weaknesses faster, polish phishing attempts, create believable impersonations, and alter malware at scale. Defenders, in turn, can no longer depend only on slow patch cycles, manual alert triage, or employee awareness posters.

In an interaction with Diwakar Dayal, Managing Director and Area Vice President, SentinelOne India and SAARC, said the core question has shifted. It is no longer only, "Can we detect an attack?" It is now, "Can we prove what is real before trust is abused?"

Cybersecurity is moving away from reactive, signature-based detection to platforms that can predict, prevent, and respond at machine s...