October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and it’s a good time to think about how much the world has changed for chief information security officers (CISOs) in the last 12 months. A year ago, we thought we were already in the thick of AI and starting to understand it. Since then, agents have spread across the enterprise faster than most organizations anticipated.
The CISO’s evolving role: Protecting and defending in the agentic era
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