Mar 30, 2026
UK NCSC and AISI warn defenders that frontier AI is rapidly improving at simulated enterprise attacks
An NCSC technical director and an AI Security Institute researcher wrote that leading models went in about 18 months from barely progressing on a simulated enterprise attack range to completing over half of a 32-step scenario. They urge defenders to prioritize fundamentals such as asset inventory, access control, secure configuration and logging, and to adopt AI carefully for defense. NCSC CEO Richard Horne followed on April 15, 2026, warning that AI will make discovering and exploiting weaknesses easier, faster and cheaper.