Friend or Foe? AI's Double-Edged Impact on Cybersecurity

Frontier AI is reshaping cybersecurity by accelerating both attackers and defenders. Using MITRE ATT&CK as the attacker lens and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework as the defender lens, this talk explores how AI can compress the attack chain while also enabling stronger threat modeling, vulnerability discovery, secure-by-design engineering, continuous assurance, resilience, and rapid recovery. The talk argues that while attackers may gain early speed and scale, defenders can gain a long-term edge by knowing the system context well and building governed, resilient, and recoverable systems that can adapt at machine speed.