Saed News: A new report, citing statements from a Google executive, indicates that cyberattacks in some cases can lead to a breach in as little as 22 seconds.
According to SAEDNEWS, citing TechCrunch, a report based on remarks by “Francis de Souza,” Chief Operating Officer of Google Cloud, emphasizes that companies are entering a transitional era in which security is no longer an add-on layer, but must be embedded from the very beginning in the design of AI systems.
He warned that the unsupervised use of public AI tools by employees, known as shadow AI, is one of the most significant current organizational risks and can lead to data leaks and weak information control.
The report also highlights a shift in the nature of cyber threats, where the speed of attacks has increased dramatically, and the time between initial intrusion and the next stage of an attack has dropped from 8 hours to 22 seconds. This has expanded the attack surface beyond traditional networks, putting models, data, agents, and even prompts at risk.
Experts also stress that with the rise of autonomous intelligent systems, the risk of accidental exposure of old and forgotten organizational data has increased—data that was previously less vulnerable due to limited accessibility.
Despite these challenges, companies are moving toward AI-based defensive models, where security systems also operate autonomously and intelligently, with humans playing a more supervisory role.
Overall, the report shows that the tech industry is at a stage where the development and security of AI are progressing simultaneously without established standards—a situation many experts describe as a risky but unavoidable transition.
