‘That’s not a knife’: Attackers outpace defenders with AI. Here’s how we catch up.

You all know the famous Crocodile Dundee scene, right? “That’s not a knife—this is a knife!”

According to Dimple Ahluwalia, IBM Consulting’s Global Offering Lead for CyberDefend, that’s basically the cybersecurity situation today. Except we’re the guys with the switchblades getting clowned on.

On this bonus episode of Security Intelligence, Dimple helps me understand one of the most concerning bits to surface in IBM’s 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report: AI-generated attacks are up 56%, while 64% of organizations report limited or no use of AI tools in security.

We discuss why the gap exists, how attackers use AI as both a tool and a target and why the key to bringing more AI into security is to stop thinking about AI.

Read the Cost of a Data Breach report: https://www.ibm.com/reports/data-breach

Watch the webinar: https://ibm.webcasts.com/starthere.jsp?ei=1769682&tp_key=2abad1a7b6&sti=web

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