Agentic AI gives Oklahoma cyber ops a powerful but ‘scary’ tool

Michael Toland, the Oklahoma state government’s top cybersecurity official, was recently confronted with a frightening experience.

It wasn’t a ransomware attack. He didn’t get into a car accident. It was the day he finally took his AI client off its leash.

Like most large government organizations, Oklahoma has for years been using various AI tools and machine learning models to trawl endless network logs for abnormal activity, but the growing barrage of cyberattacks fueled by the latest generative AI models has forced government agencies to react in kind. After several years of using network monitoring software from the British firm Darktrace in “human confirmation mode,” Oklahoma last year allowed the company’s “Cyber AI Analyst” product to make decisions on its own.

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