Rob Joyce

Advisor, World Wide Technology

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Rob served over 34 years at the NSA, where he held roles including the head of Tailored Access Operations (TAO), the NSA hackers running operations to produce foreign intelligence. He finished as the head of the Agency’s cybersecurity directorate. He also served on the White House National Security Council as a Special Assistant to the President and Cybersecurity Coordinator, as well as Acting Homeland Security Advisor. Throughout his career, Rob led operations pursuing the most sophisticated hackers and innovated technologies to protect vital national assets — including the US classified networks and nuclear authorization codes. He remains dedicated to upholding our national security in the cyber realm.

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Cybersecurity in a Post-Mythos World

AI has brought cybersecurity to an inflection point that requires more than new tools: we need better, more nimble governance policies.  Models like Anthropic’s Mythos can now find and exploit software flaws faster than humans can fix them. This paper focuses first on governance, offering questions executives and boards can use to assess the strengths, weaknesses,…