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Cyber Focus: Cybersecurity, National Security, and Critical Infrastructure

Cyber Focus: Cybersecurity, National Security, and Critical Infrastructure

Is Critical Infrastructure Ready for AI Attacks? with Booz Allen's Brad Medairy

Oct 20, 2026 · 37m

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Can cyber defenses built around human attackers keep pace with AI? Brad Medairy, president of Booz Allen's National Cyber Practice and a McCrary Institute senior fellow, joins Frank Cilluffo to discuss what his team's testing reveals about AI's ability to conduct cyber operations and navigate industrial systems. They examine how these capabilities lower barriers for attackers, why deploying defensive AI requires trust and human accountability, and what executives should do to assess readiness. The conversation also explores active cyber defense and the need to keep essential services running through a compromise. Main topics AI-driven cyber operations Frontier model testing U.S.–China…