Machine Speed: Week of November 17, 2025. Weekly intelligence on AI Cyber Policy.

📢 Machine Speed is live with a second entry!

✍️ Every Thursday, I am tracking three fronts: AI-enabled cyber attacks, AI-enabled defenses, and the policy frameworks struggling to keep pace.

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‼️ Every Thursday, I'll track three fronts: AI-enabled cyber attacks, AI-enabled defenses, and the policy frameworks struggling to keep pace. It's the threat landscape update for people who need to understand what machine-speed conflict actually looks like.

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🤖 As head of policy at @dreadnode.bsky.social, an offensive AI security startup, I watch this gap between AI-enabled threats and policy response grow wider by the day.

Machine Speed: Week of November 10, 2025. Weekly intelligence on AI Cyber Policy.

✍ I just launched a weekly newsletter: Machine Speed.

🏛️ Why? The longest federal government shutdown has finally ended. And in the midst of this chaos, cyber policy has been stalled and increasingly used as political leverage.

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VERY happy to see the Senate is resurrecting and rebranding CISA 2015 as the Protecting America from Cyber Threats Act or PACT Act. Thank you to @hsgac.senate.gov for continuing to advocate for information sharing pathways in the cyber domain: www.hsgac.senate.gov/library/file...

From Compute to Congress: To Address CISA's Authority Gap, Reauthorize CISA 2015 and SLCGP Two critical cybersecurity programs—CISA 2015 and SLCGP—expire September 30, 2025. Learn why Congress must act now to preserve voluntary information sharing, fund state/local security, and operational...

In cyber conflict, there is no neutral ground. We either establish superiority, or we cede it to those who will use it against us.

Full @dreadnode.bsky.social analysis: dreadnode.io/blog/from-co...

The AI-enabled threat landscape operates at machine speed. Adversaries use AI to automate attacks faster than human defenders can respond.

Every day we treat cyber defense as political collateral is a day our adversaries advance at our expense. (3/4)

📋 Legislative Track:
- Reauthorize CISA 2015 (voluntary info sharing)
- Renew SLCGP (state/local cyber funding)

⚙️ Regulatory Track:
- Finalize CIRCIA (mandatory incident reporting)
- Formalize CISA-National Guard coordination under Title 32

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🧵 Tonight at midnight, CISA 2015 and SLCGP expire as Congress debates another shutdown.

We're witnessing a cyber identity crisis: threats don't discriminate between civilian and military sectors, but our defenses remain fragmented. What needs to happen immediately: 🧵(1/4)

🎯 Just published in @warontherocks.bsky.social!

💰 US $774B procurement power can automate security standards & make American tech the obvious choice on merit.

🤖 My DARPA's #AIxCC experience + the @dreadnode.bsky.social talent show what's possible when we invest in secure-by-design technology.

✍ After talking AI Action Plan on @cyberscoop.bsky.social, wrote up @dreadnode.bsky.social thoughts on implementation ➡️ dreadnode.io/blog/five-ta...

‼️ While we debate frameworks, adversaries build AI attack capabilities. We need: evaluation ecosystems, red teaming, and procurement standards.

v3 of Rigging is out now. If you’re working with LLMs to build agents or run evaluations, check it out. We just added:

- Prompt caching for supported providers
- A unified tool system for function calling and fallbacks to xml/json parsing
- Native MCP integration

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🎤 New blog just dropped. What’s @dreadnode.bsky.social—an offensive AI security company—doing poking around the policy space? Read on to find out.

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour WATCH LIVE: OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman testifies on AI competition in Senate hearing

Couldn't agree more: "We're going to move fast because we're going to set standards. [. . .] If we don't collaborate here – if we throw down on politics instead of getting the policy right – we won't move fast." @cantwell.senate.gov
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📣 Excited to share the @dreadnode.bsky.social crew's first response to a federal Request for Information!

🤝 Whether you're already immersed in the tech policy space or simply want to learn more, don't hesitate to reach out—it's all hands on deck and that starts with you!

Live Stream with Dreadnode Founders | LinkedIn 📅 Date: Wednesday, March 19, 2025 | ⏰ Time: 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET Dreadnode, the company at the forefront of offensive AI research and development, recently announced its Series A funding announcement ...

Drop whatever you're doing at 1pm EST and join us for some exciting mic drops because that's what we at @dreadnode.bsky.social do best 🎤 💥

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