AI disconnect between security leaders and practitioners

Steve Wilson, Chief AI and Product Officer at Exabeam, discusses the company’s recent report, From Hype to Help: How AI Is (Really) Transforming Cybersecurity in 2025, explaining that there’s no shortage of AI hype in cybersecurity — but ask the people actually using the tools, and the story falls apart. Analysts are stuck managing tools that promise autonomy but constantly need tuning and supervision. Agentic AI flips that script — it doesn’t wait for instructions, it takes action, cuts through the noise, and moves investigations forward without dragging teams down.”