India, Feb. 26 -- Cyberattacks no longer unfold over days or even hours. They execute in minutes, sometimes seconds, driven by Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems that learn, adapt, and strike without pause. Speaking at the India AI Impact Summit,Vishak Raman, Vice President of Sales for India, SAARC, SEA & ANZ at Fortinet, said cybersecurity has entered a machine-speed era, where both attacks and defenses are increasingly powered by automation.

In this evolving landscape, the contest is no longer simply attacker versus defender, but automation versus automation, a distinction Raman drew while discussing the operational gaps he sees across enterprise security teams.

Attackers now operate like automated production systems. AI enables re...