Criminals are using AI to conduct cyberattacks and organizations are using it to defend against those attacks. Yet the parties are far from evenly matched. By all evidence, AI has exacerbated ransomware threats to companies, reported speakers at the recent 2025 Incident Response Forum Ransomware. This article synthesizes the insights and recommendations of panelists from Cooley, Freshfields, King & Spalding and John Reed Stark Consulting on how AI has exacerbated ransomware threats, what organizations can do to counter those threats and the importance of public-private cybersecurity partnerships. See “Defending Against Faster, Stealthier and More Sophisticated Cyber Adversaries” (Sep. 10, 2025).