Banks need to rethink resilience for the speed of an AI attack

Historically, the cybersecurity conversation in banking and fintech has centered on detection: can we spot the intrusion, flag the anomaly, catch the fraud pattern before it does damage? We developed incredibly sophisticated tools that can sift through thousands of ‘signals’ every time a customer makes a payment, ranging from how long it took them to type their card number to, sometimes, their social media activity.

That framing assumed a certain tempo: human attackers probing and exploiting at human speed, or…