Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Critical infrastructure is where cyber risk becomes real-world risk. The environments powering energy, water, manufacturing, and transportation are among the most complex to defend as they often combine decades-old operational technology (OT) with modern IT. Downtime is not an option, and patching isn’t always possible. Now, AI is raising the stakes. Adversaries are using AI to move faster and operate at greater scale, compressing the time defenders have to respond to attacks.

Ask AI to Choose a prompt Write a TLDR of this post Explain the security risk Summarize what CISOs should know Your team just hired someone who never sleeps, reads everything, and takes work from whoever asks. That’s the elevator pitch for Claude Tag, and on the face of it, it’s hard to see why anyone would push back on the new hire. Enterprises will want this in every workspace.

Japan’s Ministry of Finance reports that AI adoption in large local enterprises has surged to 89%. Companies are progressively choosing to incorporate AI agents into their workflows, building with Microsoft Copilot Studio, ChatGPT Enterprise, Claude, and a myriad of other platforms, all living across a variety of environments with autonomy, privilege, and minimal supervision.

AI Detection and Response (AI-DR), also called AI runtime security, is quickly becoming a must-have. Prompt injection, jailbreaks, and data leakage are real, and the prompt is often where attacks begin. But the prompt is only the first hop. In an agentic enterprise, a single instruction can trigger activity well beyond the LLM, all the way to your business systems and data.

Access to powerful AI models is opening new possibilities for cybersecurity. Models can help uncover weaknesses, investigate threats, and explore how attackers might break into an environment. Using several models can bring different strengths to that work. But model access alone does not answer a critical question: can your defense stop an attack while it is happening? In the frontier AI era, discovery needs to connect to action.

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John White is the Field CISO for EMEA at Torq. A respected security executive with more than 20 years of leadership experience, John previously served as CISO at Virgin Atlantic, where he led a multi-year transformation deploying the Torq AI SOC Platform to modernize cyber operations. Prior to Virgin Atlantic, he built and transformed security functions for global organizations, including ASOS, Liberty Global, AEG Europe, and KPMG.