The Treatment Was Successful. Unfortunately The Patient Died
Security Boulevard, Tuesday, April 14th, 2026
For the last few weeks, the cybersecurity world has been arguing about what Anthropic's Mythos and projects like Glasswing actually mean. Some people hear the alarms and think we are watching the beginning of the end. Others think we are finally seeing the breakthrough the industry has been chasing for decades.
They may both be right.
The optimistic camp includes people I respect. In a recent piece, former CISA Director Jen Easterly argues that AI could mark the beginning of the end of cybersecurity as we know it, not because threats disappear but because software finally becomes secure by design.
Her argument is simple and hard to refute. Cybersecurity exists largely because we keep shipping insecure software. If AI systems can systematically discover and fix vulnerabilities, developers will eventually respond by writing better code in the first place. The endless cycle of scan, detect, patch and repeat could finally give way to resilient software.
In other words, cyber nirvana.