--- title: Cyber defense: From reactive to proactive | daily.dev description: AI is accelerating the speed and sophistication of cyberattacks, including phishing, social engineering, and ransomware-as-a-service, while the average time to... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/cyber-defense-from-reactive-to-proactive-wiz8r8usf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Cyber defense: From reactive to proactive | daily.dev og:description: AI is accelerating the speed and sophistication of cyberattacks, including phishing, social engineering, and ransomware-as-a-service, while the average time to... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/cyber-defense-from-reactive-to-proactive-wiz8r8usf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/WIZ8R8Usf.png og:image:alt: Cyber defense: From reactive to proactive og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Cyber defense: From reactive to proactive **[CSO Online](https://daily.dev/sources/csoonline)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary AI is accelerating the speed and sophistication of cyberattacks, including phishing, social engineering, and ransomware-as-a-service, while the average time to reduce exposure after a breach remains 58 days. Shifting from reactive to proactive defense requires automation, integrated platforms, zero trust, defense in depth, and security by design. Microsoft Defender for Cloud is presented as a solution that analyzes over 80 trillion signals daily, automates investigation and response, and covers multicloud environments including AWS, Google Cloud, and on-premises. PwC partners with Microsoft to help enterprises implement these architectures, as illustrated by a Fortune 500 deployment during a data center migration. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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