Prevention is dead. The companies still building walls are already losing - and a $70M cybersecurity founder is ready to prove it.

In this episode of Inside the Silicon Mind, Firas sits down with Shachar Hirshberg, co-founder of Artemis - an AI-native cybersecurity platform helping enterprises detect and contain attacks before they cause irreversible damage.

Shachar paints a stark picture: we’re entering an era of fully autonomous AI-driven cyberattacks that can move from initial access to full data exfiltration in mere seconds. Zero-day exploits that once struck every few months will soon number in the hundreds per day. Nation-state-level sophistication that once cost millions is now available to cybercrime gangs for the price of a ChatGPT subscription.

But defenders aren’t powerless. Shachar’s core argument: attackers will never know your business the way you do. The future of cybersecurity isn’t prevention – it’s intelligent, contextual containment that stops damage without stopping your operations.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

Why AI hacking has permanently changed the threat landscape
Why the prevention-first security model is fundamentally broken - and what replaces it
The “inevitable breach” mindset every CISO needs to adopt now
How Artemis detects and contains attacks in seconds - not hours
The defender’s advantage: leveraging internal business knowledge against attackers
How to design your security program around the assumption of an inevitable breach, not a perfect perimeter
What a “good day” looks like in a world of autonomous AI attacks - and how to measure success when attacks never stop
What the next wave of cybersecurity startup opportunities looks like
Advice for founders building in AI-driven markets

Who this episode is for:

CISOs, security leaders, founders, and technical operators who are ready to move beyond prevention and want a battle-tested playbook for detecting, containing, and surviving AI-driven attacks.

Book recommendation:

The Mom Test, by Rob Fitzpatrick

About Shachar Hirshberg:

Shachar Hirshberg is a cybersecurity and AI product leader who’s built and scaled world class enterprise security products at companies like AWS and Demisto. He led product management for Amazon GuardDuty and key cloud security initiatives at AWS, and previously helped define the SOAR category as an early engineering leader at Demisto, acquired by Palo Alto Networks for 560M. With a background in computer science, economics, and an MBA from Harvard Business School, Shachar focuses on building new security categories that solve the most critical challenges for global customers.

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/shachar-hirshberg/

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