Frontier AI raises the cybersecurity bar: Why prediction must become prevention

Artificial intelligence is a double-edged sword when it comes to cybersecurity. It is giving defenders new ways to sift through vast amounts of telemetry, identify anomalous behavior and automate routine work. But it is also giving attackers the ability to discover vulnerabilities faster, build more convincing social engineering campaigns, and execute multistage intrusions at a scale that would have required large, well-resourced teams only a few years ago. That shift is at the heart of “frontier AI,” a term that is increasingly important to security leaders. Frontier AI refers to the most capable, general-purpose AI models: systems able to reason through complex problems, analyze code and data, plan multistep tasks and, increasingly, invoke tools to act. Agentic AI is a particularly consequential evolution because it can plan, decide…