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Next-gen product marketing professional and agentic AI evangelist @TenableSecurity. Ex-Forrester, Ex-CrowdStrike. #Cybersecurity | #AISecurity | #ExposureMgmt
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Agentic AI for Cyber Defenders: What Security Teams Built at Black Hat USA 2026

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By Nick Hayes
| Tenable
Agentic AI armed attackers first, but it also put real building power in defenders’ hands. Here’s what security practitioners built in two days at Black Hat USA 2026, and how the CyberAgents Exchange keeps that work compounding long after the event. Key takeaways Building defensive cybersecurity tooling no longer requires a developer.
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The best defenders build AI agents together: Join Tenable for Swarm at Black Hat ’26 Original

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By Nick Hayes
| Tenable
Agentic AI use is exploding, yet most security teams are building agents in isolation. Tenable is hosting Swarm, a build event at Black Hat 2026, for security practitioners to create and collaborate on agentic, open-source tooling to drive collective defense and stop adversaries together.
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Nick Hayes

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By Nick Hayes
| Tenable
Principal AI Evangelist at Tenable Nick Hayes is Principal Agentic AI Evangelist at Tenable, where he helps shape the future of agentic cybersecurity. He works with practitioners, researchers, developers, and industry leaders to accelerate the adoption of AI-powered cyber agents and advance new models for human-machine collaboration in security operations.
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