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Building Defense for the Agentic Era: Kevin Mandia

aired Oct 06, 2026 · 49.0m
Signal
81.7/ 100
High signal
confidence 0.99
Orig47.5
Actn100.0
Dens100.0
Dpth100.0
Clty56.2
Summary

You don't have a defense unless you have a great offense to go up against. That's what Arminen's going to do.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, know, it's, including: You want to be the Baltimore Ravens defense of 2000, you kind of want to have your practice offense really push you.

Key takeaways
  1. 01The whole, let's slow down the models
  2. 02The open models are already good enough
  3. 03The differences or similarities between nation state attacks compared to AI today and then where you think AI can be in a couple of years
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