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for cybersecurity? AI is powerful, AI is dangerous. You can simply ask AI to tell anything about your enterprise, a given company's how many firewalls are there, how many VPN systems, what vulnerabilities do they have and how do I attack them, it's all out there. And once you get in, you can even find which systems are more valuable that I should go and attack after. So AI is helping bad guys, but AI is also helping companies like Zscaler who can actually get ahead and build better protection. The worry I have is, hackers have no inertia, large corporations have inertia, we all sit on the systems we deploy and sit on for a long time, that's our biggest weakness. And related to that is, humans kind of get comfortable with what we have, we need to change that. If we've spent all of that money, why are we not there yet? And what do we have to do to get to the place where we at least feel like we're kind of like managing this exponential threat or keeping pace with it? The network and security technologies we are using today is about 30 plus year olds. It's the same firewalls, they may have gotten a little more sophisticated. A firewall is like a moat around the castle, so bad guys can't get in. Our applications are out there in the cloud, in SaaS applications, in plants and factories, our users are no longer sitting in the office connected to the company network that's supposed to be trusted and good network. So the model of network security, about securing the network is broken. You must change your network, your network is still the old school network, your security is the old school firewall-based security. Firewalls will move out, they become like mainframe. You need to get to zero trust architecture, that's what's going to change, otherwise you keep on adding more and more firewalls, you create complexity. Complexity is the enemy of security, complexity is the enemy of resilience.
