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Executive roundtable | BY INVITATION | NEW YORK | OCT 22, 2026

Speed Isn't the Same as Security: Why Agentic AI Needs a Human-Led Swarm

Agentic AI has made parts of offensive security faster. Reconnaissance, enumeration and surface mapping now run at machine speed and scale, clearing groundwork that used to consume hours of operator time. That is real, and it is useful. What it is not is proof that you would catch an attacker already inside your network. Lateral thinking, chained exploits and creative adversarial judgment remain stubbornly human. This room looks at where AI genuinely belongs in a testing program, and how a human led, AI augmented model closes the remediation gap behind real breaches instead of adding noise to a backlog that is already overwhelmed.
Date
Oct 22, 2026
Time
6:00 PM EDT
Location
New York
By invitation only
20 spots, 11 open
VenueCapital Grille120 W 51st St., New York, NY 10020Get directions

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Agenda

  • What Anthropic's Mythos actually proved, and why finding a bug faster does not mean you would catch an attacker already inside your network.

  • How agentic AI now handles reconnaissance, enumeration and surface mapping at machine speed and scale, clearing the groundwork that used to consume hours of operator time.

  • Why lateral thinking, chained exploits and creative adversarial judgment remain uniquely human, and how that shapes where AI belongs in a testing program.

  • Building a human led, AI augmented model that closes the remediation gap behind real breaches, rather than adding more noise to an already overwhelmed backlog.

Who will be there

Security and technology leaders from enterprise teams comparing what agentic AI has actually changed in their testing programs, and what it has not.

CISO / Chief Security Officer
Head of Offensive Security / Red Team Lead
Head of Security Operations / Detection and Response
Head of Technology Risk / Compliance (FS)
Head of Vulnerability Management / Security Assurance
CIO, CTO and infrastructure

Further details

Executive roundtable hosted by CovertSwarm. No slides, no product demo, no roadmap. Just conversation.

Capital Grille, 120 W 51st St., New York, NY 10020.

Reception, dinner and drinks are covered by the host.

About CovertSwarm

CovertSwarm runs constant, full scope offensive security against its clients, using a human led swarm of ethical hackers rather than a once a year test. We host these rooms because the honest conversation about where AI helps and where it does not belongs off the record. www.covertswarm.com