AI Expert: Agents Will Take Over Everything

2026-02-04 · 5 company · 6 thematic

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kevin mandia

Kevin Mandia is a legendary cybersecurity expert who started his career in the Air Force Office of Special Investigations in 1993. He founded Mandiant in 2004, pioneering the incident response model, and sold it to Google. He later served as CEO of FireEye (which acquired Mandiant) and lived through the SolarWinds supply chain attack. He is now building Armen, an AI-native company creating autonomous cyber defense through hyper-attack simulation platforms.

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“We want to build the whole hyper attack platform. Everything a nation state would build on offense we want to build... we have to create it to create an autonomous defense that can withstand the swarm.”

—kevin mandia

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