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The Cascade: Anatomy of a Compound Crisis

Posted by: CyberSecurityChief Categories: Active Cyber Defense Articles Intel-Based Defenses Spotlight - Cybersecurity News & Events
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November 2, 2026 A follow-up to “The Tangled Web: How Today’s Threats Feed Each Other.” In my last post, I argued that today’s threats are not separate problems but a web, and that we are thinning out the defenders at the moment the threats converge. Arguments like that can feel abstract. So this time I […]

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The Tangled Web: How Today’s Threats Feed Each Other

Posted by: CyberSecurityChief Categories: Active Cyber Defense Articles Artificial Intelligence
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October 31, 2026 There is no shortage of writing about how today’s crises connect. Risk reports map it every year, and some historians call it a “polycrisis.” Cyberattacks, a fragile grid, migration, polarization, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and debt each pull on the others. That much is well documented, and I will walk through it […]

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Securing the Fusion of Quantum Computing and Agentic AI

Posted by: CyberSecurityChief Categories: Active Cyber Defense Articles Artificial Intelligence Spotlight - Research & Standards
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October 22, 2026 The convergence of quantum computing and agentic artificial intelligence creates a security problem that cannot be solved by treating quantum readiness, AI security, and Zero Trust as separate initiatives. Quantum computing places pressure on public-key cryptography used to authenticate identities, establish keys, sign software, and protect long-lived information. Agentic AI expands the […]

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Active Cyber™ Presents a Security Architecture for Agentic AI: A Defense-in-Depth Framework for Bounded Autonomy

Posted by: CyberSecurityChief Categories: Articles Artificial Intelligence
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September 23, 2026 The transition from generative artificial intelligence to agentic artificial intelligence represents a fundamental change in the cybersecurity problem. Conventional AI systems primarily generate information in response to prompts. Agentic systems can interpret objectives, plan activities, invoke tools, access enterprise data, communicate with other agents, modify systems, and take actions with limited or […]

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Active Cyber™ Explores the Transformation of the Cyber Profession: AI Agents, Autonomous Security, and the Future of Cybersecurity Work

Posted by: CyberSecurityChief Categories: Active Cyber Defense Artificial Intelligence
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September 17, 2026 Artificial intelligence is beginning to transform cybersecurity from a profession dominated by human-operated tools into one increasingly characterized by autonomous systems capable of monitoring, investigating, reasoning, and acting on behalf of security professionals. The emergence of increasingly capable AI agents represents a particularly important inflection point. Unlike conventional cybersecurity automation, which generally […]

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From Low Observability to Cognitive Concealment: Active Cyber™’s Comparative Analysis of Cyber Stealth and Physical Stealth

Posted by: CyberSecurityChief Categories: Active Cyber Defense Articles Artificial Intelligence Deception Detection & Delay
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August 28, 2026 I was reading through some of the recent DEF CON 34 presentation descriptions and was struck by how complex the deception and evasion techniques have become for malware Command and Control systems (C2). This made me research some more and I discovered that the physical stealth world has also been undergoing a […]

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The Battlefield of Clones and Drones: When Trust Becomes the New Strategic Terrain

Posted by: CyberSecurityChief Categories: Active Cyber Defense Artificial Intelligence Authenticity
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August 16, 2026 For centuries, military advantage has been measured in weapons, manpower, territory, and technological superiority. But the battlefield is changing. As autonomous drones, AI, networked weapons, satellites, robotic vehicles, and increasingly realistic autonomous agents become integrated into military operations, warfare is evolving into something far more complex: a cyber-physical battle for control of […]

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The Assurance Continuum: A Unified Election Assurance Pipeline for Securing Democratic Infrastructure in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Posted by: CyberSecurityChief Categories: Active Cyber Defense Articles Artificial Intelligence
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July 24, 2026 Modern critical infrastructure depends upon an increasingly complex ecosystem of software, hardware, supply chains, operational processes, artificial intelligence, and human institutions. Yet assurance for these systems remains fragmented across traditionally independent disciplines—including software assurance, hardware assurance, cybersecurity, supply chain security, operational resilience, and information integrity—each employing distinct standards, certification processes, and trust […]

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