Check Point CTO Jonathan Zanger sees AI elevating the value of cyber

According to Check Point's CTO, AI is transforming cybersecurity in two opposing ways: security companies can now scale their threat detection and defense operations dramatically (for example, using AI agents to make red teams, which test product security, about 20 times more efficient), but attackers are also using AI to launch phishing and malware campaigns faster and with less expertise. The main challenge organizations face is that AI agents behave unpredictably and require many system connections to function, which creates a larger attack surface (the total points where a system can be attacked) that is harder to protect than traditional deterministic systems (systems that produce the same output for the same input).