Overview

• Nearly 30 Black Hat sessions explored how autonomous AI agents can accelerate threat hunting, reduce alert fatigue and shift security operations from reactive to anticipatory defense.
• ISC2’s 2025 AI survey found that 44% of organizations are actively rethinking cybersecurity roles and skills to integrate autonomous systems.
• AttackIQ, Black Duck and Cyware introduced AI-driven products—Watchtower threat analyzer, automated AI code scanning for Duck Assist and the Model Content Protocol open-source server—to streamline detection and response workflows.
• Arctic Wolf expanded its platform with new integrations for Microsoft, Oracle, OneLogin and CyberArk to help organizations unify fragmented security tools across dynamic hybrid environments.
• A 1Password survey revealed that 63% of security leaders view employees unintentionally granting AI agents access to sensitive data as a top internal threat, and 50% reported AI-related security incidents in the past six months.