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Blueteam Blues 2026

Blueteam Blues 2026 Coming out of Black Hat, the cybersecurity industry is abuzz about autonomous and agentic security. Whether it's agentic triage, autonomous SOC, autonomous vuln management, or attack tools, there is a ton of focus on how devastatingly effective these thinking machine super computers are against the doomed legacy security models of most corporations. A lot of this is driven by the excitement of sharks who see blood in the water, mixed with the satisfaction of "I told you so" from defenders and researchers who have been saying our computer security sucks for the last 30 years. In cybersecurity fear sells, wallets will open, blinky lights will blink, and our faith in the next savior will erode as zero trust becomes explicit trust exception by exception. Industry insiders closely guard our industry's open secret: that "secure" describes the mental and emotional well-being of an animal, not the runtime state of a Rube Goldberg machine harnessi...