AI threats scale 43.4% faster each month. What's your plan for next week?

When threats scale 30x faster than revenue, is “compliance” enough?

C.J. Moses, CISO at AWS – “On average, we’re seeing 750 million attempts per day. Previously, we’d see about 100 million hits per day, and that number has grown to 750 million over six or seven months.”

➤ Cyberattacks increased 43.4%. Every month. For half a year.
➤ Revenue at AWS grows 1.46% monthly.
➤ Threats scaled 30x faster than revenue.

➤ Asked “Is that a sign hackers are using AI?”:

C.J. Moses – “Without a doubt. Generative AI has provided access to those who previously didn’t have software-development engineers to do these things.”

➤ We gave everyone AI assistants. Now we’re shocked they’re assisting cybercrime?

➤ Democratising attack vectors changed the game. Defence needs the same treatment.

Heather Adkins, Google’s VP of security engineering – “We will be able to leverage Gen AI to protect infrastructure in new ways that we’ve never thought of before and also at a speed that we’ve never been able to achieve before.”

➤ We’re entering a new era of defence. And when threats scale 30x faster than revenue, defence must scale cost effectively.

➤ Integrating modern AI security tools does have a cost, but so does being the case study in your next month’s “What went wrong” deck.

Heather – “There’s no doubt that we’re seeing an increase in tempo and sophistication of attacks… But I also feel that today, more than ever before, enterprises have better tools. If I think about starting a company 23 years ago, cybersecurity looked primitive then.”

➤ GenAI is reshaping security from a post-mortem layer into a design-time discipline. That means fewer leaks, less rework, and faster delivery cycles for both teams and customers.

➤ Security’s come a long way. And in smart hands, it’s now a competitive accelerant - not just a compliance checkbox.

➤ It’s how modern teams go and scale with confidence.