$ARMADIN · Mandia: Armadin builds nation-state grade offensive AI to train autonomous defenses against AI-driven attacks

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Mandia: Armadin builds nation-state grade offensive AI to train autonomous defenses against AI-driven attacks

2026-04-06 · 3 company · 3 thematic

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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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“There's no doubt in our mind within two years all attacks are going to be AI-driven. And what's interesting to me is most humans don't understand it. The speed at which it can operate at is incomprehensible. If all offense goes to AI, that…”

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