Those who have tried Mytos say it’s the best thing that could have happened to cybersecurity

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Mythos, Anthropic’s AI model which has proved exceptionally adept at identifying vulnerabilities, is the talk of the town. Initially made available to a small number of companies (grouped under the ‘Glasswing project’) to help secure critical US systems, it has recently been withdrawn from use due to national security concerns. Those who have tried it, however, are enthusiastic about it and say it is the best thing that could have happened to cybersecurity.

We know this because, during Zenith Live 2026 – Zscaler’s annual event held in Vienna – we had the chance to have a chat with Sam Curry, the company’s CISO (Chief Information Security Officer), who did not hesitate to describe the new product as a genuine revolution for the cybersecurity sector, hailing its ability to transform it from the ground up.

In today’s cybersecurity landscape, Zscaler’s Chief Information Security Officer is responsible for managing one of the world’s largest and most critical cloud infrastructures, acting as a genuine global authorisation system through which every single transaction carried out by major international organisations passes.

With such a responsibility, it is no surprise that for the past few weeks he has been devoting much of his time to what has been presented as an apocalyptic threat, and he said he was surprised to discover that it is, in fact, a godsend. Like any self-respecting, highly specialised nerd, when he talks about Mythos, he doesn’t describe it as a mere technological evolution, but as a revolution comparable to the introduction of Kali Linux to the world of penetration testing. Its capabilities, in fact, are truly superhuman. Mythos does not merely identify individual vulnerabilities, but entire exploit chains, linking medium and low-risk vulnerabilities that together become critical, and writing attack code in real time. It is as if, when organising bank robberies, the AI system were not only capable of opening the safe, but also of…

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