Broadcom bets on lateral threat prevention against AI – SiliconANGLE

Agentic AI is transforming the cybersecurity threat landscape, pushing lateral threat prevention to the forefront as enterprises rethink how to protect workloads after a breach.

As AI-powered tools make it easier for threat actors to discover vulnerabilities in open-source code and launch autonomous attacks at machine speed, the case for defense in depth — and especially lateral — threat prevention has never been stronger, according to Umesh Mahajan (pictured, right), vice president and general manager of the application networking and security division at Broadcom Inc.

“AI is the best at finding vulnerabilities. Earlier, hackers had to read the open-source code and figure out which way to attack,” Mahajan told theCUBE. “Now AI can do all that for you. Write a couple of agents — it can crawl through a million lines of open source and then it’ll mercilessly attack your environment one by one … You have to imagine ahead where these attacks are going come in….