Regional Director at @CyStack | Cryptography Specialist | Cybersecurity Consultant
𝐌𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐄𝐧𝐝𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐜𝐲𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞. After more than a decade in this field, I’ve seen one constant: attackers always go for the weakest endpoint. What’s changed is what counts as an endpoint. It’s no longer just laptops or phones. Today, in the 𝐀𝐈 decade, endpoints include: • AI agents running workflows with access to customer or financial data. • Service accounts & APIs carrying long-lived tokens or secrets. • Cloud workloads spinning up and down faster than most IT teams can inventory. • Contractor or partner devices outside your direct control. Every one of these is now a gateway. And every one of them is being actively probed. 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞’𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲: • 𝐄𝐃𝐑/𝐗𝐃𝐑 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 were designed for user devices, not AI agents or ephemeral workloads. Their telemetry gaps leave blind spots attackers love to exploit. • 𝐈𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐲-𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐬 are brittle when machine identities multiply and secrets aren’t rotated. One leaked token can be as dangerous as a stolen laptop. • 𝐀𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 needs to evolve - it’s not just about spotting malware, but about flagging unusual agent behavior, compromised API calls, or lateral movement across SaaS. • 𝐙𝐞𝐫𝐨 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭 only works if applied uniformly across all endpoints, human and machine. Few orgs are there yet. A company I worked with learned this the hard way: a single forgotten service account, tied to a third-party 𝐒𝐚𝐚𝐒, was compromised. It wasn’t covered by their endpoint tools, and it gave attackers weeks of silent access into sensitive systems. It wasn’t “a missing patch” that cost them - it was an invisible endpoint. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞? Cybersecurity maturity in this decade will be defined by how well you treat every endpoint as equal - whether it’s a CEO’s laptop, an LLM-powered agent, or a Kubernetes pod. - If you can inventory it, monitor it, and enforce policies consistently, you’ll stay ahead. - If you can’t, you’re betting your business on luck. In cybersecurity, foresight always costs less than hindsight. And in the 𝐀𝐈 era, foresight starts with rethinking the endpoint. #Cybersecurity #EndpointSecurity #AISecurity #ZeroTrust #FutureOfSecurity