Unprecedented Complexity
Brief
I saw it again, just today. Another post on social media stating that IT teams/defenders "face unprecedented complexity".
This one stood out amongst all of the posts proclaiming the need for agentic AI on the defender's side, due to how these agents were currently being employed on the attacker side. We hear things like "autonomous agents" being able to bring speed and scale to attacks.
I will say that in my experience, defenders are always going to face complexity, but by it's very nature, I would be very reticent to call it "unprecedented". The reason for this is that cybersecurity is usually a bolted-on afterthought, one where the infrastructure already exists with a management culture that is completely against any sort of consolidated effort at overall "control".
Most often, there's no single guiding policy or vision statement, specifically regarding cybersecurity.