The advancement of AI-driven public cloud technology is changing the game of “protection by default” in the enterprise.
I recently had the opportunity to brief an industry analyst on the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) in solving public cloud security. Both the analyst and I had navigated the inception and commercialization of intrusion prevention systems (IPS) and have been skeptical for many years that just because a security technology is capable of preventing a threat or an active attack, customers won’t necessarily operate the technology in a protection mode.
Even today, I’d estimate that 80% of network IPS is operated in detection-only mode and, while faring better, host-based IPS is likely deployed in 60% of enterprise environments as detect and alert only.
