About this episode

Brad Arkin joins James Wilson to discuss strategies for defenders in light of the impending bugpocalypse.

In this podcast episode Brad Arkin joins James Wilson to discuss how defenders can get ahead of the late-running bugpocalypse. While we’re confident the offensive cybersecurity capabilities of frontier and open-weight LLMs are real, attackers don’t yet seem able to fully utilise them. This creates a window of opportunity for defenders to tackle the threat. There are a few well-funded and seemingly overlapping industry efforts under way including Athena, Akrites, and Patch the Planet. But, as Brad says in this interview, there’s too much focus on fixing bugs and traditional vulnerability triage, and not enough on exploring how to make entire classes of vulnerabilities inert.

People in this episode

Host: James Wilson

Guest: Brad Arkin

Topics covered

• cybersecurity
• vulnerability management
• defensive strategies
• LLMs
• bugpocalypse

Keywords

• cybersecurity
• vulnerabilities
• defensive tactics
• LLMs
• bugpocalypse

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Athena, Akrites, Patch the Planet

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