Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Frontier AI has handed attackers something they have never had before: the ability to move at machine speed. Attacks that once took days to craft now take minutes. Threats have not just evolved to be automated, adaptive, and operational around the clock. They have also changed category. We surveyed more than 850 IT and cybersecurity professionals across Australia and New Zealand to understand how organisations are keeping up. What the data reveals is not a capability problem. It is a pace problem.

Adversaries are using AI to launch cyber attacks in record time, forcing security teams to measure responses in minutes instead of months. Phishing campaigns built with large language models (LLMs) achieve click-through rates 4.5 times higher than traditional methods,1 and the average time between initial compromise and lateral movement has fallen to just 29 minutes.2 This is a 65% increase from the prior year.2 State and local governments and higher education institutions are at an inflection point.