ü  The Era of Autonomous Adversaries

December 2025 marks a turning point in cybersecurity: threat actors are deploying agentic AI systems capable of executing entire attack chains autonomously. These adversaries perform reconnaissance, privilege escalation, lateral movement, and data exfiltration—without human intervention. [techradar.com]

ü  Why This Matters

Traditional defenses assume human-driven attacks with predictable dwell times. Autonomous adversaries compress timelines from days to minutes, overwhelming manual response teams and legacy SIEM workflows. [techradar.com]

ü  Defensive Playbook

• Deploy governed defensive AI for real-time anomaly detection and automated containment.
• Instrument zero-trust policies across identity and API layers.
• Run adversarial simulations to test resilience against autonomous attack patterns. [techradar.com]