Toward Responsible AI-Augmented Cyber Defense: Pattern Recognition, Defense-In-Depth, and the Case for Human-AI Collaboration

Cybersecurity literature has extensively documented the operational benefits of artificial intelligence AI for threat detection, incident response, and prevention, while raising qualitative concerns about over-automation, algorithmic bias, and analyst-skill erosion. What remains largely absent is...

AI is Working in the SOC. So Why are Security Executives More Worried Than Ever?

Something shifted in security operations over the last two years: AI stopped being a pilot program and became the plan. And if you survey 500 security professionals on whether that's going well – as Omdia did, commissioned by Rapid7 – you get a remarkable level of consensus: 97% report positive...

Trust but Verify? Uncovering the Security Debt of Autonomous Coding Agents

The increasing adoption of autonomous coding agents accelerates software development but also introduces scoped security risks within high-impact file paths that can outpace traditional human review capacity. While prior research has primarily evaluated these systems in terms of functional...

ARES: A Platform for Adaptive Role-Based Evaluation of Social Engineering Risks in Human--AI Games

This work introduces ARES, a platform and open pilot dataset for auditing adaptive social engineering risks in LLM-mediated social decision-making through controlled social games. ARES supports human--human, human--AI, and AI--AI settings, combining configurable game templates, role-conditioned L...

AI Assurance in UK Defence: Challenges in Operationalising JSP 936

This report examines practical challenges in operationalising JSP 936 Part 1 for AI assurance in UK Defence. Using a structured interpretive review of the directive's requirements, the analysis identifies eight thematic challenge areas adequacy of evidence and argument, management of human...

Structured threat hunting: One way Microsoft Threat Experts prioritizes customer defense

Todays threat landscape is incredibly fast-paced. New campaigns surface all the time, and the amount of damage that they can cause is not always immediately apparent. Security operations centers SOCs must be equipped with the tools and insight to identify and resolve potentially high-impact threa...