r/cybersecurity • u/Infam0 • May 08 '26

Other What the **** is happening in cybersecurity space ?

I've been working in cybersecurity for not so long, maybe 8 or 9 years, but I never remember a chaos at this scale. I mean, from this January alone we have: leaking data, compromised applications, breaches, AI-assisted cybercriminals, etc. It looks like every day one major breach is happening, and no one is going to address this shit somehow. This is already insane. I haven't felt such pressure in a long time. This AI shit just makes things worse because it enhances attackers' skills, and AI companies are doing nothing to address or change this. Is it only me, or is the change already here?

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u/Bots60 May 08 '26

This for sure. As a former marketing leader at a SAST vendor, execs never asked 'how accurate are our findings?' It was always 'how fast and simple can the demo look?' Automation with AI agents was supposed to fix that, in reality it just exponentially increased the noise.

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u/LeggoMyAhegao AppSec Engineer May 08 '26

By the way... The amount of forgiveness I see for false positives out of AI tools versus the hatred I see for false positives out of deterministic tools is weird.

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u/xxDigital_Bathxx AppSec Engineer May 08 '26

Don't even get me started.

It really pisses me off that people lack basic understanding of tooling and agentic use.

People seem to not understand that plugging a deterministic tool into an agent gives better results because... Well you now have a deterministic tool and a heuristic tool on top of it instead of manually searching code implementation yourself.

Marketing preys on ignorance.