Tiru Chillapalli

The battle between cybercriminals and cybersecurity professionals is increasing daily. A cybersecurity report states that cybercrime could cost as much as $10.5 trillion yearly by 2025. Artificial intelligence has become the weapon in this arms race. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Microsoft with over 15 years of experience in cybersecurity, I have seen the evolution of cyber attacks. I have also witnessed the importance of AI in security coupled with a Master’s

You know that moment when you confidently hit “deploy” at 4:59 p.m. on a Friday, and two seconds later, your phone explodes with alerts that production is on fire? LIKE LITERALLY ON FIRE! Or when a fellow senior dev quietly fixes prod but never mentions how—probably because they’re afraid that if AI learns their secrets, it’ll automate their entire job? (I’m only half-joking, of course.) Welcome to the chaotic, caffeine-fueled roller coaster we call DevOps.