Last week, a client got hacked.
Not a little breach. A full-blown compromise.
An attacker gained access to an inbox and started replying to emails as if they were the real person.
It was subtle at first.
Tone felt off. Grammar wasn’t quite right. Something was… wrong.
By the time they called us in, there were thousands of data points to sift through.
Access logs. Email threads. Timestamps. Spreadsheets with 10,000+ rows.
And in moments like this, the question isn’t what happened.
It’s how fast can we figure it out?
Enter ChatGPT.
I started dumping everything in.
- One spreadsheet had login activity from 5 different countries. I asked ChatGPT:
“Show me every login tied to this suspicious IP.” Boom — it pulled it out in seconds.
- I pasted in a long email thread. Then asked: “Can you spot when the tone changes or grammar shifts?” It flagged the exact moment the attacker took over the conversation. Line by line.
- I even fed it access logs, combined with the user’s typical behavior patterns. And it helped me piece together a detailed timeline — faster than I ever could alone.
Normally, building that kind of forensic report would take a team two or three days.
With ChatGPT, I had answers in a few hours.
Enough to call the client that same day with a clear explanation of what happened — and what we’d already done to stop it.
Here’s the lesson:
AI isn’t magic.
But when you’re staring down tens of thousands or rows of data and your client’s freaking out?
It feels like magic.
This wasn’t a planned experiment.
This was real-world pressure. And the difference between a slow, reactive mess and a fast, professional response… was AI.
If your business handles data — whether it’s security, legal, finance, or operations — and you’re still processing everything manually?
You’re already behind.
ChatGPT turned hours into minutes.
Turned confusion into clarity.
And helped us go from “we think we know” to “here’s exactly what happened.”
The future of work isn’t just faster. It’s sharper.
And in our world, speed isn’t a luxury — it’s the difference between chaos and control.