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The Hugging Face Incident Isn’t Just Another Breach

It Signals a Fundamental Shift in How Cybersecurity Will Work The recent Hugging Face security incident has sparked a wave of discussion. Much of it has focused on the vulnerability itself, the response, or whether this truly represents the first autonomous AI attack. The campaign reportedly executed “many thousands of individual actions across a swarm […]

Adam Vincent · July 20, 2026
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What Is an AI Harness and Why Every Enterprise Will Need One

The AI Industry Has Become Obsessed With Models Over the last several years, the AI industry has become increasingly focused on models. Every major announcement, benchmark, funding round, and product launch seems to revolve around which model is smartest, fastest, cheapest, or most capable. Organizations evaluating AI initiatives often begin by comparing GPT, Claude, Gemini, […]

Adam Vincent · July 1, 2026
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What Anthropic’s Red Team Revealed About the Future of Security Operations

The Next Cybersecurity Challenge Isn’t the Model. It’s the Operation Around It. For years, security teams have assessed threat actors using a relatively stable set of signals. How technically sophisticated are they? How many ATT&CK techniques do they employ? How broadly do they operate across the kill chain? The assumption has been straightforward: more techniques […]

Adam Vincent · June 23, 2026
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The Window Is Closing: 2026 Verizon DBIR Signals the End of Sequential Coordination

Every year, the Verizon DBIR gives the industry a useful snapshot of where attackers are succeeding and where defenders are struggling. The 2026 report feels different. Not because the findings are surprising. Most CISOs and SOC leaders have already felt these pressures building over the last 18 months. What stands out is how clearly the […]

Neil Cohen · June 15, 2026
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Introducing Bricklayer Model Provider Management: When the Model Changes, the Operation Shouldn’t

The AI industry is moving at a pace no enterprise security program can reasonably match. New models are released every month. Benchmarks shift. Providers evolve. Today’s leading model will eventually be replaced by something better. The challenge isn’t that models change. The challenge is ensuring your security operations don’t have to be rebuilt every time […]

Neil Cohen · June 9, 2026
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Introducing the Shared Agentic Library: Turning Operational Expertise Into a System Asset

Closing the Gap Between Security Strategy and Operational Reality There is a pattern beginning to emerge across security operations teams as AI enters the SOC, regardless of size or maturity. An AI agent is configured to triage cloud alerts in the right way for one business unit. A multi-agent procedure is assembled that reliably handles […]

Neil Cohen · June 3, 2026
Press

Bricklayer AI Wins 2026 Fortress Cybersecurity Award in Agentic AI Security Platform

Funding includes participation from prior investors, joining Engage, and fueling the company’s mission to automate and scale cybersecurity operations through AI agents. Arlington, VA — October 22, 2025 — Bricklayer...

Neil Cohen · June 3, 2026
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Governance Is the Real Barrier to Enterprise AI

Earlier this month at Knowledge 2026, Bill McDermott made a statement that immediately caught my attention: “Governance is the real barrier to enterprise AI adoption.” I think he’s right. Over the last two years, the technology industry has been consumed by a race to build AI agents. New models, copilots, orchestration frameworks, and autonomous workflows […]

Adam Vincent · May 29, 2026
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Why I Joined Bricklayer AI

For over a decade, I worked in application security. Helping companies defend against DDoS, application-layer vulnerabilities, and automated attacks: credential stuffing, web scraping, enumeration, fake account creation. That world shaped how I think about attackers, not as distant, abstract threats but as adversarial teams with their own profit motivations and iteration cycles, their own tooling, […]

Neil Cohen · May 21, 2026

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