Data gravity - the principle that as data volumes grow, data becomes harder and more expensive to move - is the biggest barrier to effective AI in cybersecurity, causing slow queries, costly migrations, and analysts who spend more time hunting for context than investigating threats. The post outlines four principles for breaking free from fragmented security infrastructure so teams can unify their architecture and speed up incident response. Security teams ingesting telemetry from endpoints, cloud workloads, identity providers, and network controls can apply these principles to accelerate AI-driven threat detection.