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The Allure of AI Security and the Tools That Promise Protection
Widespread Breaches in Everyday AI Tools: The Silent Crisis Businesses Keep Ignoring
Devona Green Jordan
September 09, 2025
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Interesting Tech Fact:
Long before today’s AI-driven platforms like HexStrike-AI, one of the earliest “cybersecurity tools” was actually a Cold War-era program called Reaper in the 1960s—the first antivirus software ever created. Built by an engineer at BBN Technologies, Reaper’s purpose wasn’t to protect PCs (which didn’t exist yet), but to hunt and delete the Creeper worm, a self-replicating experiment that had infected ARPANET, the precursor to the internet. This little-known tool marked the beginning of defensive cybersecurity, setting the foundation for every modern security product. The irony? Reaper itself was a worm—an autonomous program designed to infiltrate networks, proving that from the very start, the line between offensive and defensive cybersecurity tools has always been razor-thin.
Introduction
Artificial intelligence has swept into the enterprise security stack with promises of faster, smarter, and more autonomous protection.