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Autonomous Red Teaming Is the Warm-Up. The Real Test Is the Operating Model

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Three wake-up calls in four months. The industry is testing the attacker. It also needs to rethink the defender. Faced with autonomous attackers, the cybersecurity industry has largely converged on the same response: more testing. In April 2026, Anthropic disclosed that Mythos, restricted from public release, had autonomously discovered and exploited thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities […]

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Introducing Conversational Platform Management: When Analysts Define the Objective, Not the Workflow

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How Stating an Objective Becomes the Primary Way to Operate the Bricklayer Platform Every new capability added to enterprise software has traditionally meant another menu, another configuration screen, another playbook, or another integration to manage. As platforms became more powerful, they also became more complicated. Users spent as much time learning how to operate the […]

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The Hugging Face Incident, One Week Later

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What Happened When the Defenders Needed AI Too When we first wrote about the Hugging Face incident, most of the story was still unfolding. The biggest revelation was that this wasn’t another breach. It was a fully autonomous attack chain, executing thousands of actions without human direction. A week later, one of the most important […]

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The Hugging Face Incident Isn’t Just Another Breach

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It Signals a Fundamental Shift in How Cybersecurity Will Work The recent Hugging Face security incident has sparked a wave of discussion. Much of it has focused on the vulnerability itself, the response, or whether this truly represents the first autonomous AI attack. The campaign reportedly executed “many thousands of individual actions across a swarm […]

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What Is an AI Harness and Why Every Enterprise Will Need One

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The AI Industry Has Become Obsessed With Models Over the last several years, the AI industry has become increasingly focused on models. Every major announcement, benchmark, funding round, and product launch seems to revolve around which model is smartest, fastest, cheapest, or most capable. Organizations evaluating AI initiatives often begin by comparing GPT, Claude, Gemini, […]

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What Anthropic’s Red Team Revealed About the Future of Security Operations

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The Next Cybersecurity Challenge Isn’t the Model. It’s the Operation Around It. For years, security teams have assessed threat actors using a relatively stable set of signals. How technically sophisticated are they? How many ATT&CK techniques do they employ? How broadly do they operate across the kill chain? The assumption has been straightforward: more techniques […]

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The Window Is Closing: 2026 Verizon DBIR Signals the End of Sequential Coordination

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Every year, the Verizon DBIR gives the industry a useful snapshot of where attackers are succeeding and where defenders are struggling. The 2026 report feels different. Not because the findings are surprising. Most CISOs and SOC leaders have already felt these pressures building over the last 18 months. What stands out is how clearly the […]

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Introducing Bricklayer Model Provider Management: When the Model Changes, the Operation Shouldn’t

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The AI industry is moving at a pace no enterprise security program can reasonably match. New models are released every month. Benchmarks shift. Providers evolve. Today’s leading model will eventually be replaced by something better. The challenge isn’t that models change. The challenge is ensuring your security operations don’t have to be rebuilt every time […]

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