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Industry witnesses tell House panel AI can scale cyber defense; vendors cite steep efficiency gains
Summary
Microsoft, Trellix and other vendors told the House Homeland Security Subcommittee that AI tools can markedly improve detection and response, offering example metrics and use cases while cautioning that AI requires secure design and human oversight.
Industry witnesses told the House Homeland Security Subcommittee that integrating artificial intelligence into cybersecurity operations can scale defenses and reduce human workload, but they cautioned that models and agentic systems require secure design and human review.
Steve Fale, Microsoft’s U.S. government security leader, said Microsoft protects customers from “more than 600,000,000 cyber attacks per day” and that the company has seen large gains from AI tools in operations. “As a result, we've seen a 34% decrease in mistakes, a 17% decrease in breaches, and a 30% faster time to incident resolution using this…
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