Mike Frantzen
Mike’s career spans the cyber spectrum: defense, offense, founding companies, to exploiting geo-asymmetries. In the 2000s he bet on automation, in 2013 that thesis became a company, in 2025 it was acquired to converge cyber with traditional warfare.
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The Coming Collapse of the Software Monoculture
A friend made an observation after DARPA’s 2025 AI Cyber Challenge that has stuck with me.
His read was that almost everyone walked away thinking some version of: “AI is going to make my existing cyber tools better.” Better fuzzers. Better...
How Leaders Manufacture Luck
I have one of those stories in my CEO bag of tricks that I use whenever someone asked why we spend so much energy on small things. I’m still using it on sabbatical, so it is time to write it down.
There is a long-running argument in manage...
Hardening the Substrate of AI Code
We are around an inflection point from where most software was written by humans to where most software is being written by AI. I believe that will create long term supply chain attack risks. Hear me out. The coding models of today have bee...
Running AI Like a 200-Hacker Org
One of the conversations I keep having this year is how we all use AI. I used to run/lead/manage/cat-herd a ~200 person R&D organization, so I use AI like it’s an entire organization. I give it high-level strategic objectives, have it follo...
Cryptanalysis, Commoditized
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While we’re in a tizzy about Mythos and future peer-models’ ability to dominate cyber via exploitation, frontier AI companies also have the compute on hand to crack 4% of the encrypted internet traffic flowing right now, and a muc...
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