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AI is making cybersecurity harder - and that's a GTM problem too

CrowdStrike's AI security comments point to a warning worth paying attention to: AI cybersecurity tools are approaching the point where they will outpace human researchers at finding vulnerabilities. AI systems are already accelerating how fast security flaws get discovered - on both sides of the equation.

That means the attack surface is expanding faster than most security teams can respond to it.

AI is making cybersecurity harder - and that's a GTM problem too
Security risk expands with the stack.

This isn't just a security team problem. For RevOps and GTM operations, it has direct implications. Your CRM holds customer data, deal history, email sequences, and contact records. Your integrations connect your marketing automation, your sales stack, your support tools, your data warehouse. If any of those systems have vulnerabilities that AI-assisted attackers can now find faster than ever, the blast radius for a breach hits the entire revenue operation - not just IT.

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The practical takeaway isn't to panic. It's to ask your IT and security counterparts a straightforward question: are we auditing the integrations in our GTM stack the same way we audit financial systems? Most of the time, the answer is no. Those integrations are where your most sensitive commercial data moves, and they're often the least scrutinized.

As AI accelerates both sides of the security equation, that gap is worth closing before someone else finds it first.

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Another angle on the business impact.
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