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▶ 23:12 · AI Agents · AI agent swarms will automate nation-grade cyber offense by 2026
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Joe Lonsdale

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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