AI agents quickly stop attacks that are based on identity by sandboxing suspicious login attempts and fixing them before human analysts look at alerts. N-able's 2026 The State of the SOC report says that AI will be the most common way for attackers to get in this year. The same AI tools that make attackers more flexible also make it possible for defensive detection to find small behavioral changes in real time that go beyond static rules.

SMEs need to act right away because size doesn't protect them and the risk to business continuity is high.Mike Adler, Chief Technology and Product Officer at N-ABLE, says, "We can now find, fix, and fix breaches faster than ever before." He is in charge of the global technology and product strategy for managed service providers.

He has worked in cybersecurity for more than 20 years. Before that, he was the Chief Product Officer for Security at RSA and held leadership positions at Symantec.