AI may finally unlock the cyber budgets CISOs have wanted for years

For nearly two decades, cybersecurity leaders have faced the same reality: No matter how catastrophic the latest breach, ransomware attack, or nation-state intrusion, security spending often struggled against competition with every other business priority. AI may finally be changing that equation. The rapid emergence of frontier AI systems capable of autonomous cyber operations — combined with the spread of agentic AI inside enterprises — has created something security leaders rarely enjoy: urge