Go Hack Yourself Before the Adversaries Do: Preparing Federal Defenses for AI-Driven Attacks (CEU Approved)

AI-driven platforms like Mythos are accelerating the speed and scale of vulnerability discovery and exploitation. For federal agencies managing complex environments, this influx makes prioritization harder, highlighting the critical need to distinguish theoretical flaws from real mission risk in a controlled repeatable and validated way. Join Horizon3.ai for a discussion on shifting from traditional vulnerability management toward continuous validation of exploitability, attack paths and operational resilience. 

Attendees will learn:

• Mythos's impact on federal cybersecurity programs.
• How AI accelerates vulnerability discovery and exploitation.
• Why vulnerability counts and severity scores fail to represent mission risk.
• How attackers chain vulnerabilities, identities, and misconfigurations.
• Why exploitability validation is critical for prioritization and decision making.
• How continuous security validation supports zero trust and cyber resilience.

As vulnerability explosion discovery accelerates, agencies must move beyond measuring findings to continuously verifying defenses, validating what attackers can actually exploit and prioritizing based on real-world risk.

CISA's Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04 represents an important evolution in how federal agencies approach vulnerability remediation.