Assessed Signal – April 2026
The regulatory collision between California’s AI procurement Executive Order and the Trump administration’s federal preemption framework has created a dual compliance burden, with Colorado’s AI Act and the EU AI Act both reaching enforceability within the same operational quarter. The U.S. Intelligence Community’s 2026 Annual Threat Assessment designates AI as a defining national security priority for the first time at this prominence, documenting adversarial use in active conflict operations and state-sponsored data extortion campaigns. At RSAC 2026, CrowdStrike reported the average adversary breakout time has collapsed to 29 minutes, AI-enabled attacks increased 89 percent year-over-year, and one Fortune 500 organization discovered more than 600 AI agents running in its environment without any security ownership.
Assessed Signal – March 2026
Cybersecurity must transition from traditional patching to a systems theory approach to manage “Agentic AI” and autonomous workflows that operate without human intervention. To maintain control and meet new legal mandates like the EU AI Act, organizations are adopting the ARISE Framework, which integrates human-in-the-loop oversight and “Zero Trust” architectures for data provenance. This “Shift Left” methodology transforms ethics into a functional control variable, ensuring that AI agents remain reproducible and traceable to human-verified sources.
Assessed Signal – February 2026
As AI becomes the focal point of more discussions in both government and industry, industry continues to adopt it for all the right reasons but fails to understand the risks and vulnerabilities such adoption entails. Anthropic doubles down on last month’s report regarding the agentic AI attack. POTUS signs an executive order wresting federal control of AI regulation from the states to the executive branch.
Assessed Signal – December 2025
As AI becomes the focal point of more discussions in both government and industry, industry continues to adopt it for all the right reasons but fails to understand the risks and vulnerabilities such adoption entails. Anthropic doubles down on last month’s report regarding the agentic AI attack. POTUS signs an executive order wresting federal control of AI regulation from the states to the executive branch.
Assessed Signal – November 2025
Organizations continue to adopt AI/ML for various tasks but are not considering some of the longer-term challenges with privacy and security. Adversaries are creating new and creative ways to use extant AI against defenders. As more organizations adopt AI for their workflows, their information sources, the organizations will become increasingly exposed to malicious actors. Research on AI and security does not proceed at the same pace as adoption, thus the gap between the art of the possible and exposure grows at an exponential rate.