How AI changes cybersecurity's balance of power
Show notes
AI is accelerating cyberattacks. Could it also give defenders the upper hand?
In this episode of The Deep View Conversations, we sat down with Adam Meyers, CrowdStrike's head of counter adversary operations, at Fal.Con 2026 to explore how AI is changing the balance of power between attackers and defenders.
Meyers explains why he believes security teams can now match the speed and scale of their adversaries, how CrowdStrike is training offensive and defensive AI models against each other, and why the harness that guides an AI model can matter just as much as the model itself. He shares how changing that harness helped CrowdStrike reduce false positives in its vulnerability research without changing the underlying model, and how cyberdefenders are uniting to assist one another.
The conversation also goes inside the live disruption of the Sality botnet, explores how nation-state attackers are using agents that learn from their mistakes in seconds, and examines why powerful AI systems need clear boundaries as they pursue their goals.
Topics covered:
• Why AI could change the defender's dilemma
• How CrowdStrike and its partners disrupted a botnet that had operated for more than two decades
• Training red team and blue team models based on Nvidia's Nemotron models and CrowdStrike's security data
• Why AI harnesses are critical to reducing hallucinations and false positives
• How AI attacks are compressing the time organizations have to patch vulnerabilities
• What the Hugging Face incident raises about goal-seeking agents and guardrails
• Why local, open-weight models matter to both attackers and defenders
If you're trying to understand what AI means for cybersecurity, how to put agents to work safely, or where specialized models can make a difference, this conversation offers a view from someone tracking the adversaries firsthand.
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