The Detection Era Is Over: How Mythos Changes Everything

For twenty years, the security industry has been organized around a quiet assumption: detection buys you time. Mythos ended that assumption. When an AI agent can read a codebase, hypothesize a flaw, build a proof of concept, and chain exploits together faster than an analyst can triage a ticket, detection tells you only what has already happened. Recovery is the last line of defense and increasingly the only line that holds when attackers move at machine speed.