When Attackers Have Agents Too: How a CFD Broker Built Agentic Cyber Defence in Production
A regulated CFD broker deployed agentic AI cyber defense in production to counter autonomous AI-driven attacks.
“I won't downplay the threat. It is real. Uh, and if you're not responding to it effectively, it is existential.”
ACAP, a Melbourne-based CFD broker, shared a production case study on deploying agentic cyber defense systems, citing Anthropic's white paper documenting the first autonomous agentic cyberattack where weaponized agents made tactical decisions and crafted personalized extortions. The talk signals that the AI arms race in cybersecurity has crossed from theoretical to operational, with both attackers and defenders now running autonomous agents in the wild. This is a meaningful early-mover enterprise story showing agentic AI moving into high-stakes regulated production environments.