How AI Is Changing Cybersecurity Threats (and How It Isn't)
InformationWeek, Tuesday, September 8th, 2026
A TransUnion director separates the AI threats that deserve attention from the familiar risks still doing the damage.
AI has not rewritten the cybersecurity playbook so much as supercharged familiar attacks, according to a TransUnion director interviewed here.
The discussion separates AI threats that warrant new controls, such as automated exploitation and convincing large-scale social engineering, from those that are mostly repackaged versions of existing risks.
Credential theft, unpatched internet-facing systems and misconfiguration still account for the bulk of incident response work. The value for security leaders is a basis for pushing back on AI-branded product pitches that address a threat model their organization is not actually facing.