Does AI Create New Cybersecurity Risks? What Actually Changes

AI does not create new attack vectors. It accelerates the ones that already dominate most risk registers. Code exploitation, injection, credential and identity abuse, phishing, and misconfiguration are the same vectors security teams tracked before generative AI reached the enterprise. What changed is how quickly they can be found and exploited, and the volume of findings that reach a security team as a result.

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