About this episode

Mike Wilkes discusses the implications of Mythos, autonomous pen testing, and the future of self-securing software.

Mythos, Autonomous Pen Testing, and the Future of Self-Securing Software, with Mike Wilkes, Enterprise CISO at Aikido Security. On the Cyber Security Recruiter podcast, Mike Wilkes discusses a busy week of CISO events at Google (Mythos/Glasswing gathering), the Harvard Club, and Meta’s OSAC cybersecurity committee, plus an NYSE TV interview about Aikido Security’s Series B and growth. He explains Mythos Preview’s implications, including rapid vulnerability discovery (citing Firefox fixing 271 issues vs 20–30 historically), Anthropic’s restrictions, and the need for prioritization (EPSS) rather than chasing raw CVE volume. Mike describes autonomous pen testing where a $7,000, two-week API test was replicated for $4 in 80 minutes, arguing the “harness” and orchestration matter most. He emphasizes soft skills, listening, and translating security into business impact for boards, warns about privacy erosion, token-cost waste, supply-chain/model risks, and advocates small local models for privacy and resilience.

People in this episode

Host: Thomas Richard

Guest: Mike Wilkes

Topics covered

• cybersecurity
• CISO events
• autonomous pen testing
• vulnerability discovery
• business impact
• privacy
• software security

Keywords

• CISO
• vulnerability discovery
• autonomous pen testing
• privacy erosion
• business impact
• security
• software

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Aikido Security, Google, Harvard Club, Meta, NYSE

Products: Mythos, Mythos Preview, Firefox, Anthropic

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