# Rising From the Ashes: How Agentic AI is Unblocking Challenges in Cybersecurity

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.23138 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2606.23138/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Placed in Agent threats, guardrails and governance, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use.
- Builds on 9 of its 44 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 22 Jun 2026.

## Placed in

- LLM agents and tool use / [Agent threats, guardrails and governance](https://mlsanity.com/agents/agent-threats-guardrails-and-governance/)

## Builds on (most cited first, 9 of 9)

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- [On Adaptive Attacks to Adversarial Example Defenses](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2002.08347/) (2020)
- [Wild Patterns: Ten Years After the Rise of Adversarial Machine Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1712.03141/) (2017)
- [Adversarial Robustness of Deep Neural Networks: A Survey from a Formal Verification Perspective](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2206.12227/) (2022)
- [How Benchmark Prediction from Fewer Data Misses the Mark](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.07673/) (2025)
- [Debloating Software through Piece-Wise Compilation and Loading](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1802.00759/) (2018)
- [Agent Security is a Systems Problem](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.18991/) (2026)
- [SecV: Secure Code Partitioning via Multi-Language Secure Values](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.15582/) (2023)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Security remains a high-cost challenge, with many problems historically deemed inefficient to address or effectively unsolvable. A significant number of these problems stem from labor-intensive tasks that create bottlenecks in defensive approaches. Agentic AI has the potential to alleviate these bottlenecks by directly ingesting and reasoning over natural language or code, thereby expanding the scope of feasible defenses. In this paper, we map open security problems to emergent agentic AI capabilities. To illustrate this potential, we examine 16 case studies, including supply chain analysis, highlighting how agentic AI may benefit defenders.