Venky Ganesan & Rama Sekhar & Sam Borja & Sabrina Lu — Menlo Ventures - Agents for Security: The Tipping Point for Offensive AI - March 2026

A perspective article from Menlo Ventures analyzing the state of offensive AI in cybersecurity as of March 2026. The piece details how autonomous cyberattacks have moved from theoretical to operational, with AI agents now outperforming human operators across the full attack chain. It highlights specific technical developments (extended reasoning, tool integration, multi-modal capabilities) that drove this shift and discusses the implications for security validation, including Menlo's investment in Armadin, a platform that deploys swarms of specialized AI agents for continuous attack surface probing.