Security in the Age of AI: Old Problems Meet New Risks

The Enterprise Ready Conference 2025 highlighted key insights into the evolving intersection of AI and security, with a focus on whether companies are converging or diverging in their approach to securing AI systems and using AI to enhance security. A panel featuring experts from Opal Security, Socket, Formal, and RunReveal discussed the challenges of adapting traditional security principles to the rapid pace of AI operations, emphasizing the need for both AI for security and security for AI. They explored how AI can be utilized to address the unique risks it introduces, such as agentic worms and new attack surfaces, while maintaining fundamental practices like authentication and audit trails. The discussion underscored the importance of integrating AI into security practices and maintaining human oversight, as well as building a security culture within organizations. The panelists concluded that AI and security are becoming inseparable, requiring a recursive approach where AI systems help secure each other, monitored by AI tools that ensure operational integrity at unprecedented speeds.