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The Rise of AI Security Agents: Defend at Machine Speed
📅 Date: October 14, 2026 10:00 AM PT (LA Tech Week) ⏱️ Duration: 90 minutes 📍 Location: 2450 Colorado Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90404 🅿️ Parking Information below ⬇️
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 🎤 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. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🅿️ Parking Information 📍 Location: 2450 Colorado Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90404
Entrance: Enter the parking structure from Cloverfield Blvd. or 26th St., using the far-right lane as you approach the garage. Pull a parking ticket at the gate to enter.
Where to Park: Park on Level P1, in any spot that is not marked reserved.
Validation: Bring your parking ticket to Amazon Reception to receive a validation chaser sticker.
Exiting: At the exit gate, scan your original parking ticket first, then scan the chaser sticker immediately after ("chasing" the original). ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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).
