Why AI Favors Whoever Automates Most With Barracuda
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Why AI Favors Whoever Automates Most With Barracuda

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 25, 202625 min
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Can security teams defend an organization when attackers are using AI to research targets, personalize messages, identify weaknesses, and launch campaigns at a scale no human team can match? I returned to Alpbach, Austria, for Barracuda TechSummit 26 and caught up with Neal Bradbury one year after our conversation about being secure today and ready tomorrow. A lot has happened since then. Agentic AI has become a boardroom subject, employee AI use has spread across businesses, and attackers have gained access to tools that lower the cost and expertise required to launch sophisticated campaigns. Neal explains...

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How do organisations defend themselves when AI gives attackers the ability to research their targets, personalise phishing emails and launch campaigns at a speed that no human team can match? Well, last year at Barracuda Summit 25, Neil Bradbury joined me on the podcast to discuss

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being secure today and ready tomorrow. But fast forward 12 months later, and once again I find myself back in Albach, Austria, and tomorrow appears to have arrived rather quickly. So today, Neil is going to explain why Barracuda believes the AI era doesn't require businesses

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to abandon their existing security strategy, but requires them to accelerate the platform work that is already underway. AI, non-human identities, email attacks, managed XDR, and Barracuda's recent acquisition of EVO security. Anil will also share why defenders can compete with machine speed attacks,

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