FEATURE
Across APAC, AI has stepped up from something people prompt to something that acts on its own.
Security teams are seeing genuine gains too: alert triage that used to take analysts hours now happens in minutes and case summaries that took up a whole shift can be ready before an analyst has finished their coffee.
However, most businesses are sitting on years of‘ security debt’. These could be – files shared too widely, permissions nobody has reviewed, accounts with more access than they need and an agent will happily draw on all of it when answering a question. The good news is this is one of the most solvable problems in security. Reviewing who has access to what, labelling sensitive data so protection travels with it and holding agents to the same identity rules as staff are all wellestablished practices, not new inventions. It’ s housekeeping and the payoff is being able to hand agents bigger jobs with confidence.
Kash Sharma, Managing Director Australia and New Zealand at BlueVoyant
and completing multi-step tasks on behalf of staff, often faster and more consistently than a person managing the same workload manually.
The next 12 months will decide who gets the most out of this shift. AI agents will take on bigger jobs, working together across entire workflows rather than single tasks and the region is well placed to lead here. APAC businesses have adopted this technology faster than most of the world and the ones that pair that speed with proper controls will set the standard for what secure AI adoption looks like globally. That’ s the opportunity worth talking about this AI Appreciation Day: not just what AI can do but proving it can be done right. •
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