How AI Has Impacted the Security Mission
Commvault, Thursday, October 8th, 2026
Commvault CSO Bill O'Connell reflects on how AI accelerated existing security priorities rather than replacing the mission.
Commvault Chief Security Officer Bill O'Connell draws on 20 years in cybersecurity to explain how AI has changed the CISO role, moving from an emerging risk a year ago to part of nearly every conversation today.
He identifies the collapse in the cost of capability as the biggest inflection point, letting attackers operate at scale with less skill while employees adopt tools that ingest corporate data and generate code and content.
O'Connell argues that AI has sped up the clock on the existing security stack rather than replacing the mission of enabling the business.