That’s the architecture shift — from “does this match a known threat pattern” to “is this sequence of actions consistent with credential theft, regardless of what the initial email looked like.” Most SOCs present those as four unrelated alerts triaged by different analysts. The attacker’s operational logic is more coherent than the defender’s detection pipeline.
The capability transfer is permanent
London didn’t rebuild its transportation system assuming most drivers still couldn’t navigate. It accepted the collapse and adapted. The cabbies who survived stopped competing on memorization and shifted to what GPS couldn’t replicate: Judgment, local knowledge, reading the situation in real time.
The security equivalent is the same pivot. Stop competing on pattern recognition — the skill AI just made irrelevant for both sides — and shift to what attackers cannot automate away: Understanding what normal looks like inside your specific organization, connecting signals across kill chain stages, and reaching a verdict at machine speed.