CAROLINE WONG is a recognized cybersecurity strategist with nearly 20 years of experience in GRC, product security, and executive leadership. She serves as Director at Teradata and Faculty with IANS Research, advising Fortune 500 organizations on governance, risk, and resilience. Caroline is the author of Security Metrics: A Beginner’s Guide—inducted into the Cybersecurity Canon Hall of Fame (2022)—and hosts three industry podcasts: Humans of InfoSec, The AI Security Edge, and Wake Up. Her career spans leadership roles at eBay, Zynga, Symantec, Cigital, and Cobalt.

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• Preface xiAcknowledgments xiiiIntroduction xvPART I: CYBER'S NEW PLAYER: AI ON BOTH TEAMS 1Chapter 1: The Age of Adaptive Adversaries: AI's Impact on the Security Balance of Power 3Chapter 2: Smarter, Faster, Cheaper Recon: What Hackers Know Before You Even Notice 15Chapter 3: Polymorphic to Predictive: How AI Supercharges Malware at Machine Speed 31Chapter 4: Breaking the Rules: Novel Attacks and the Limits of Signature Detection 53Chapter 5: Hyper-real, Hyper-targeted: Deepfakes, Phishing, and AI-powered Deception 79PART II: BUILDING RESILIENCE WITH AI 97Chapter 6: Patterns of Life: Learning What's Normal and Spotting What's Not 99Chapter 7: From Alert to Containment—AI-augmented Incident Response 127Chapter 8: The Illusion of Trust: Poisoned Data, Tampered Models, and AI Supply Chain Risk 153Chapter 9: Building Secure Model Supply Chains with AI-augmented Security Teams 181PART III: STAYING GROUNDED: TRUST, RISK, AND ACCOUNTABILITY 205Chapter 10: Human Values, Machine Decisions: The Ethics of AI in Security 207Chapter 11: The Human Advantage: Leadership, Learning, and the Future of AI Security 225Index 239

CAROLINE WONG is a recognized cybersecurity strategist with nearly 20 years of experience in GRC, product security, and executive leadership. She serves as Director at Teradata and Faculty with IANS Research, advising Fortune 500 organizations on governance, risk, and resilience. Caroline is the author of Security Metrics: A Beginner’s Guide—inducted into the Cybersecurity Canon Hall of Fame (2022)—and hosts three industry podcasts: Humans of InfoSec, The AI Security Edge, and Wake Up. Her career spans leadership roles at eBay, Zynga, Symantec, Cigital, and Cobalt.

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• Preface xiAcknowledgments xiiiIntroduction xvPART I: CYBER'S NEW PLAYER: AI ON BOTH TEAMS 1Chapter 1: The Age of Adaptive Adversaries: AI's Impact on the Security Balance of Power 3Chapter 2: Smarter, Faster, Cheaper Recon: What Hackers Know Before You Even Notice 15Chapter 3: Polymorphic to Predictive: How AI Supercharges Malware at Machine Speed 31Chapter 4: Breaking the Rules: Novel Attacks and the Limits of Signature Detection 53Chapter 5: Hyper-real, Hyper-targeted: Deepfakes, Phishing, and AI-powered Deception 79PART II: BUILDING RESILIENCE WITH AI 97Chapter 6: Patterns of Life: Learning What's Normal and Spotting What's Not 99Chapter 7: From Alert to Containment—AI-augmented Incident Response 127Chapter 8: The Illusion of Trust: Poisoned Data, Tampered Models, and AI Supply Chain Risk 153Chapter 9: Building Secure Model Supply Chains with AI-augmented Security Teams 181PART III: STAYING GROUNDED: TRUST, RISK, AND ACCOUNTABILITY 205Chapter 10: Human Values, Machine Decisions: The Ethics of AI in Security 207Chapter 11: The Human Advantage: Leadership, Learning, and the Future of AI Security 225Index 239

CAROLINE WONG is a recognized cybersecurity strategist with nearly 20 years of experience in GRC, product security, and executive leadership. She serves as Director at Teradata and Faculty with IANS Research, advising Fortune 500 organizations on governance, risk, and resilience. Caroline is the author of Security Metrics: A Beginner’s Guide—inducted into the Cybersecurity Canon Hall of Fame (2022)—and hosts three industry podcasts: Humans of InfoSec, The AI Security Edge, and Wake Up. Her career spans leadership roles at eBay, Zynga, Symantec, Cigital, and Cobalt.

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• Preface xiAcknowledgments xiiiIntroduction xvPART I: CYBER'S NEW PLAYER: AI ON BOTH TEAMS 1Chapter 1: The Age of Adaptive Adversaries: AI's Impact on the Security Balance of Power 3Chapter 2: Smarter, Faster, Cheaper Recon: What Hackers Know Before You Even Notice 15Chapter 3: Polymorphic to Predictive: How AI Supercharges Malware at Machine Speed 31Chapter 4: Breaking the Rules: Novel Attacks and the Limits of Signature Detection 53Chapter 5: Hyper-real, Hyper-targeted: Deepfakes, Phishing, and AI-powered Deception 79PART II: BUILDING RESILIENCE WITH AI 97Chapter 6: Patterns of Life: Learning What's Normal and Spotting What's Not 99Chapter 7: From Alert to Containment—AI-augmented Incident Response 127Chapter 8: The Illusion of Trust: Poisoned Data, Tampered Models, and AI Supply Chain Risk 153Chapter 9: Building Secure Model Supply Chains with AI-augmented Security Teams 181PART III: STAYING GROUNDED: TRUST, RISK, AND ACCOUNTABILITY 205Chapter 10: Human Values, Machine Decisions: The Ethics of AI in Security 207Chapter 11: The Human Advantage: Leadership, Learning, and the Future of AI Security 225Index 239