Speed and automation: How AI is transforming cybersecurity

AI & automation are turning cybersecurity into proactive defence

- ANAND RAJ OK

As cyberattacks grow faster, more automated, and more coordinated, defending a modern digital organisation demands more than human effort alone.

That was the focus of a fireside chat at the Gulf News Cyber Forum 2025, where Jishant Karunakaran, CEO of Mindfire Technologies, sat down with Anoop Kumar, Head of Information Security & GRC at Gulf News, to discuss how AI-driven defence is reshaping the cybersecurity playbook.