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The Rise of AI Security Agents: Defend at Machine Speed

Hosted by Amazon Web Services

When
10:00 AM
Where
Santa Monica
Format
Roundtable / Workshop
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The window between vulnerability disclosure and active exploitation is collapsing. Frontier AI models can now reason across entire codebases, trace a vulnerability to root cause, and propose a fix — in minutes. The same capabilities are available to adversaries. The question isn't whether AI will reshape cybersecurity. It's whether defenders or attackers get there first.

Join us for a 90-minute deep dive into the emerging landscape of AI-powered security agents — from purpose-built cyber defense models to autonomous red/blue teaming — and what it means for how you architect, ship, and protect software.

What We'll Cover

🔴 Offense-Grade AI for Defenders — How purpose-trained cybersecurity models (like AWS's newly available Daybreak Red & Blue on Amazon Bedrock) give authorized security teams frontier capabilities: vulnerability research, exploit reproduction, and mitigation development — with the refusal thresholds dialed for real defensive work

🔵 Autonomous Blue Team Agents — Detection engineering, incident response, and patch validation at machine speed. How AI agents trace reachability, confirm exploitability, and ship fixes within the disclosure window

🧠 The Broader Landscape — Where Mythos, Daybreak, and next-gen security agents fit in the stack. What's production-ready vs. emerging, and how to evaluate

🔒 Zero-Trust AI Infrastructure — Running sensitive security workloads (proprietary source code, unpatched vuln details, live telemetry) through models you control: zero-operator access, VPC isolation, and no training on your data

⚡ From Finding to Fix — The end-to-end pipeline: discovery → confirmation → root cause → tested patch → deployment. How AI agents compress weeks into hours

Why This Matters Now

• GPT-5.6 Cyber (via Daybreak Red) was used to discover two zero-day vulnerabilities in Chrome's V8 engine — one of only 4 successful V8 CTF entries in 2026

• The average time-to-exploit after disclosure has dropped below 72 hours

• Most security teams are still triaging manually while attackers automate

Who Should Attend

• CISOs & Security Leaders — Understand what's coming and how to harness it

• AppSec & Red Team Engineers — See what purpose-trained models can actually do

• CTOs & Engineering Leaders — Learn how AI security agents change your SDLC

• Startup Founders — Build security-first without a 50-person security team

What You'll Walk Away With

✅ A mental model for the AI security agent landscape (offense, defense, governance) ✅ Understanding of how to access and evaluate restricted-access cyber models on AWS ✅ Architectural patterns for running sensitive security workloads through AI ✅ A framework for assessing your org's readiness for autonomous security tooling ✅ Connections with AWS security-focused Solution Architects

Event Details

📅 Date: October 14, 2026 10:00 AM PT (LA Tech Week) ⏱️ Duration: 90 minutes 📍 Location: 2450 Colorado Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90404 👥 Capacity: 80–100 (first come, first served) 🎤 Format: 30 min panel + 30 min live demo + 30 min open discussion

Hosted By

AWS Startups — Presented by Solutions Architects working at the intersection of AI and security with startups building in this space today.

This event is a part of #LA TechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at [www.tech-week.com](http://www.tech-week.com).

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