The future of cyber warfare will run at machine speed, algorithm vs. algorithm, with humans by exception. Participants learned how a single AI-powered tool (NodeZero) took only 7 minutes 19 seconds to compromise a large financial institution. No humans were involved. No custom scripts were written. This was a successful algorithmic cyberattack that leveraged the same tactics as ransomware agents and other emerging threats.

Attendees joined Carahsoft and Snehal Antani, CEO and Co-founder of Horizon3.ai, as he presented The Future of Cyber Warfare: the evolution of attack. During the session, they learned how:

• Attackers don’t “hack in,” they log in
• Autonomous ai-driven pentesting continuously identifies possible attack paths and ineffective security controls to ensure your limited resources are spent fixing problems that can actually be exploited
• Continuous attack paired with continuous defense, executes an integrated learning loop that gets smarter with every interaction

Horizon3.ai’s Autonomous Pentesting-as-a-Service (APTaaS) lets you see your network through the eyes of an attacker to help find, fix, and verify exploitable vulnerabilities before attackers do. This self-service SaaS offering is safe to run in production, available on-demand, and requires no persistent or credentialed agents. Not just a compliance checkbox; this is effective security.