Imagine three soccer players defending a goalmouth; then imagine a striker trying to find a point of weakness. While the defenders can’t keep the ball out forever, they’ll need to use their skill and judgement to know where to focus their attention.

Cybersecurity teams have always been under pressure to understand what is happening across their attack surface. Attackers have historically had an asymmetric advantage because, like the strikers in soccer, they just need to find one weakness in a business’ defence to be successful. But I believe AI will start tipping the advantage in favour of cyber defenders.