Long: AI will enable cybercriminals to deploy autonomous attack agents at scale
Brian C. Long · How to spot an AI Deepfake · Feb 28, 2025 · at 13:41
Brian Long is the CEO of Adaptive Security. He discusses how artificial intelligence enables cybercriminals to multiply their attack capabilities through autonomous agents.
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“Now with AI, they can lever themselves up and they can make, you know, infinite numbers of themselves as agents to go out and do these types of attacks autonomously. And it's going to be very, very profitable for them. So they're going to have lots of money to pile back in and run this like a business and scale it up.”
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