Automated Cyber Defense: Lessons from DARPA’s AI Cyber Challenge - [INE-R05]

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Presented at RSAC 2026 by

Andrew Carney

Taesoo Kim

Tyler Nighswander

Michael Brown

To protect our critical infrastructure from cyberattacks, DARPA and ARPA-H launched the AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC), a competition designed to develop of AI-driven tools capable of autonomously finding and fixing software vulnerabilities. This talk will feature the winning teams and explore lessons learned from the challenge, how the technology is being deployed to safeguard our systems, and more.