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Every October, Cybersecurity Awareness Month pushes security teams to look at where threats are heading. This year, most of that conversation is about AI finding vulnerabilities faster. The worry is fair. AI lets an attacker try every variation of an exploit in the time it used to take a person to try one. But defenders…

Cybersecurity Awareness Month serves as a great reminder that staying ahead of threats requires more than keeping up with the latest technology. As AI continues to change the threat landscape, it is worth taking a closer look at how we measure our ability to respond. And increasingly, we measure it in seconds. 

The moment an attacker owns a valid collaboration account, their phishing and file transfers look like ordinary teamwork, and controls built around email and the login screen never fire. Unit 42, the Palo Alto Networks threat-research team, calls this the identity security gap inside authenticated Teams and Slack sessions. Its analysis found endpoint alerts tied…