AI threats require an AI-powered defense.
But organizations who fail to fully map their environments don’t have the right data to support automation, said AllegisCyber Capital founder and DataTribe co-founder Bob Ackerman during a discussion at RSAC Conference 2025.
That’s where SixMap comes in.
“(SixMap) gives you the ability to map a network in totality with high fidelity, high levels of confidence, tell you where you’re vulnerable and what the probability of those vulnerabilities being exploited are,” Ackerman explained. “That dataset lays the foundation for beginning to apply artificial intelligence to the defensive side of the equation.”
AI is rapidly changing the velocity and sophistication of threats, set to reduce actions that previously happened over nine months down to nine hours, Ackerman said. And the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 is only throwing more complexity into defense efforts, making it difficult for organizations to get visibility across their entire network. Ackerman estimates that most orgs have just 50% visibility, even in an IPv4 world, “and you hope you’re seeing the right half of the network,” he said.
SixMap’s advanced computational mapping software grants organizations with the deeper visibility they need to begin to root out vulnerabilities, prioritize actions, and automate their defense.
“You can’t defend what you can’t see,” Ackerman said. “You want to understand the totality of your network to understand where your vulnerabilities are.”
View Ackerman’s full conversation with Information Security Media Group here.
