🐢 Security teams aren't falling behind because they lack tooling, or because attackers are getting smarter (they're not). There's a marked shift in pace. In the latest episode of Experts on Experts, Craig Adams sat down with Rapid7 VP, Cyber Intelligence, Christiaan Beek to discuss exactly what we’re seeing in the 2026 threat landscape. 🧵 See what the full conversation has in store via our blog: https://r-7.co/4vY8IlF ▶️ Or jump right into the extended cut on YouTube: https://r-7.co/4vUMFwh
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Pace is the right diagnosis — but it's about to get worse. When attackers start using AI agents to run reconnaissance, exploitation, and lateral movement at machine speed, the gap between detection and response collapses to seconds. Defensive tooling needs to match that speed at the agent layer, not just the endpoint. NIGHTFALL was built because the Kali toolkit is out of date for the AI agent attack surface — none of the standard tools touch it. We've now got autonomous attack agents that are very difficult to stop once loose. FIREBALL infiltrates and embeds. WARLORD orchestrates campaigns end-to-end. NEMESIS runs adversarial reasoning pentests with 21 weapons. That's why we built AI Shield — 114 runtime modules designed for the speed agentic threats actually move at. Worth the conversation if Christiaan's covering this in the next episode.