Cyber Pioneers Ponder Past as Prologue

Dark Reading asked several prominent cybersecurity columnists to revisit their favorite pieces from the past 20 years and reflect on how those topics have evolved. The contributors include Robert Hansen on bot scraping that's now morphed into AI content scraping, Katie Moussouris warning that AI-accelerated bug discovery is overwhelming security teams, Rich Mogull on the principle that simple solutions don't scale, Richard Stiennon praising the PCI Data Security Standard as one of the few regulations with real enforcement teeth, and Bruce Schneier on encryption's limitations in solving modern network security problems. What's striking across their reflections is how many of the core challenges they identified years ago remain relevant today, even as AI has amplified both the problems and potential solutions.