Active Cyber Defense

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

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...

Securing the Fusion of Quantum Computing and Agentic AI

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

Learn How the AI Age Will Redefine Trust and Work

June 12, 2026 I believe we are on the advent of a profound job revolution as the impact from AI begins to take shape. As I think about the growing...

The Belief Twin: Toward an Architecture of Cognitive Modeling and Its Policy Implications

4/13/2026 As I was writing this article, I was reminded of my teen years when I read Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy and became fascinated by the theory of psychohistory –...