Australia’s Commonwealth Bank developed its own agentic AI threat hunting tools after finding that cybersecurity vendors could not keep pace with the rapidly increasing volume and sophistication of AI-powered threats, which saw their weekly threat signals surge from 80 million to 400 billion. The in-house AI system significantly reduced threat assessment time from two days to 30 minutes and helps frontline analysts focus on problem-solving rather than repetitive tasks, addressing both operational scale challenges and analyst mental health concerns.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/17/commonwealth_bank_ai_defense/