Bryce Goodman, Chief Strategist of AI/ML for the US Department of Defense, and Chris Finan, CRO of Symmetry Systems Inc., talk about using AI for cyber attacks and how it affects defensive roles in security.
by Nikhil Chawla
Underwriting is both art and science. It’s also qualitative and quantitative. Indeed, it’s objective and subjective. Underwriters are not unlike the baseball scouts in Moneyball. They consider run of the mill statistics like runs batted in, on base average and myriads of other data. They also consider countless subjective factors. They were awful. Billy Bean (the A’s GM) brought in a statistician. What happened? The Oakland A’s achieved the longest consecutive game winning streak in history. It holds strong to this day. Unfortunately, the A’s haven’t retained their edge. All teams have their quants now. And scouts have persisted. So, what will be the fate of the underwriter? Will they persist like the scouts, or are they headed for a ChatGPT enabled demise?
You walk into your CFO’s office with a carefully prepared business case for a critical security investment. The risk assessment is complete, the vulnerabilities are documented, and you’re ready to make your argument. But the moment you mention “attack surface” or “zero-day vulnerabilities,” you can see their attention drift. The issue isn’t that your CFO […]
On January 14, 2026, Resilience launched its inaugural Risk Briefing Series with a clear message for CISOs: the cyber extortion playbook has been rewritten, and organizations relying on traditional defenses are dangerously exposed. In the first session of this monthly intelligence series, Jud Dressler, Director of Resilience’s Risk Operations Center and retired U.S. Air Force […]
The cybersecurity industry has a terminology problem. We’re still calling it “ransomware” when the majority of attacks no longer encrypt and request a ransom for decryption as their primary weapon. Resilience’s analysis of cyber extortion claims in our portfolio throughout 2025 reveals a dramatic acceleration in attack methods. Data theft extortion-only events rose from 49% […]
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