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CISO Weekly Intelligence Summary Week of August 28 - September 3, 2025

Critical AI democratization enables threat actors achieving 15-minute exploit development at $1 while 95% enterprises see zero ROI, as 200-millisecond response windows render human-loop security obsolete with 93% attacks exploiting human factors not technical vulnerabilities, MFA bypass triggers $5M insurance denials while 70% networks run misconfigured firewalls described as "thousand-dollar deadbolts left unlocked," OAuth supply chains compromise Salesforce across Palo/Zscaler through tenant federation as Storm-0501 destroys cloud backups demanding data ransoms, and tool exhaustion from managing 15-20 products creates "dashboards of doom" while North Korean operators without coding skills maintain engineering positions via AI assistance.

⤷ AI Arms Race transforms unskilled actors into sophisticated threats requiring 4-hour automated patch windows preventing commodity exploits
⤷ Automation Imperative demands sub-second response consolidating 60-80% coverage platforms replacing fragmented tools
⤷ Human Revolution shifts from blame to empowerment through creative phishing tests achieving executive engagement while storytelling training exceeds certification ROI
⤷ Resilience Mandate enforces manual failover capabilities assuming weeks of undetected admin compromise with immutable distributed backups

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