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Offensive Security Investments Surge as AI Threats Increase
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Omdia's analysis signals a shift in enterprise security spending toward offensive practices to counter AI-accelerated attacks, giving defenders situational awareness of how agentic AI is reshaping both threat and defense strategies.
A Dark Reading News Desk interview with Omdia analyst Theresa Lanowitz discusses new research on rising enterprise investment in offensive security practices — penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, and red teaming — as organizations respond to AI-driven threats and the speed at which adversaries weaponize vulnerabilities. Lanowitz notes agentic AI has so far been more effective for attacks than defense and stresses limiting an AI agent's 'blast radius.'