Building Defense for the Agentic Era: Kevin Mandia

AI is collapsing attacker sophistication gaps and forcing cybersecurity defense to become fully autonomous within roughly two years.

• Mandian founder returns: Kevin Mandia, who built and sold Mandiant to Google, co-founded Armadin in 2025 after meeting founders David Slater, Travis Lanham, and Evan Pena, convinced AI makes his 30 years of experience largely obsolete.
• 90+ zero-days found: Since January 2026, Armadin's AI agents found over 90 zero-days at Fortune 500 production sites via black-box external attacks, not source-code review.

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