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a16z|Oct 22, 2026 00:05
The future of security in the AI age is "the constant pressure of models attacking you," says Kevin Mandia of @ArmadinSecurity. That means seeing your network the way a swarm of AI attackers would: "We do a thing called a hyperattack. We throw a drone swarm of agents at you, and we map your network. Every service, every route, every system, all assets. We may end up with terabytes of metadata on your network." "This is the attacker's view of your network. But with that metadata, we now just poll you almost like a heartbeat." "What's changed?... Did a route change? Did a service get updated? Did a new machine get presented into the target area? We can poll cheaply for change and then attack the change." "You can't [attack yourself] all the time because it's cost prohibitive, and it's unnecessary. You do it when either the threat changes, new models come out, new intelligence is available, or your network changes." "Over the weekend, there was a zero-day in a popular product, and immediately we've already got the heartbeat. We just polled who's got the problem." "Our goal at Armadin is to go from a known vulnerability to knowing whether it's actually exploitable before the bad guys can."
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