Attackers Run on Machine Time.
Your Validation Runs on a Calendar.

Ron Eddings opens the Autonomous Validation Summit 2026, setting the stage for the sessions ahead and welcoming attendees.

Anthropic's Mythos Preview combined four independent bugs into a single exploit chain that bypassed both browser and OS sandboxing. AI-driven offensive capability isn't a forecast — it's an engineering reality. David B. Cross examines what these threats look like inside enterprise environments, why periodic testing can't keep pace with adversaries that operate autonomously, and what real-time, autonomous validation means for defenders.

Drawing on the Frost Radar™ for Automated Security Validation, Ying Ting Neoh examines how AI is changing attacker behavior, why the market is moving from periodic testing to real-time validation, and how leading organizations are adapting.

Mythos proved AI can weaponize vulnerabilities that survived decades of human review, and over 99% of what it found remains unpatched. A wave of new exploits is coming. Volkan Ertürk shows how Autonomous Exposure Validation and Picus Swarm discover what's exploitable in your environment, prove whether controls hold, deliver vendor-specific remediation guidance, and re-validate that fixes actually work. The defensive answer to AI-driven adversaries.

When AI can surface thousands of vulnerabilities overnight — as Glasswing just demonstrated — the old playbook of prioritizing by CVSS score collapses. Johnny Xmas and Marius Poskus share how they cut through context-free CVE noise to focus on what's actually exploitable in their environments, how they've moved from scheduled testing to real-time validation, and what they'd tell any team still prioritizing by CVSS score alone.