What Anthropic's standoff with Washington teaches the Defense Industrial Base about supply chain risk. Here's the uncomfortable question every contractor should be sitting with right now: what happens to your program when the government decides your AI vendor is a national security problem — and you're already built on top of them? That stopped being hypothetical this year. In the span of four months, the U.S. government hit Anthropic with two different national security instruments, through...

Everything in our cybersecurity arsenal still matters. The assumptions surrounding it may not be keeping pace. I’ve spent enough years in cybersecurity to become suspicious whenever someone announces that a new technology changes everything. Usually, it doesn’t. Firewalls still matter. Identity still matters. Least privilege matters. Network segmentation matters. Endpoint protection, secure software development, logging, monitoring, vulnerability management and incident response do not...

An AI companion for a handheld hacking tool did not raise its transmission power. It raised the cognitive power directing it. A Cyber Explorer look at proximal agentic exploitation, ambient prompt injection, and delegated decision authority in the Defense Industrial Base.