Most of the industry is responding to Anthropic’s Mythos and Project Glasswing by fixating on the vulnerabilities themselves — more 0-days, discovered faster, exploited sooner. The conversation is dominated by the rising tide of what’s coming at defenders. Far less attention is going to the other side of the equation: how fast engineering teams can actually respond when a vulnerability lands. That’s the real bottleneck in the Mythos era, and it’s both a security and engineering problem — exposure mapping, patching speed, change cycles, and breach-assumed architecture.
Join Harness Field CTO Adam Arellano, IVP Operating Partner and former Atlassian CISO Bala Sathiamurthy, and Vercel VP of Security and former Chime Deputy CISO Mukund Sarma for a deep-dive into what it takes to get an organization Mythos-Ready. Together, they’ll explore how to rebuild the partnership between Security and Engineering, redraw ownership boundaries, and make the case for change to the CEO and board. Drawing on decades of experience leading security, infrastructure, and risk programs at companies including Atlassian, Vercel, Chime, Microsoft, Yahoo!, and NerdWallet, the speakers will share practical perspectives on accelerating response readiness, scaling secure engineering practices, and enabling innovation while maintaining trust. Senior security leaders will leave with a clearer point of view they can act on.
Bala Sathiamurthy is an Operating Partner and CISO at IVP and former Chief Information Security Officer at Atlassian, where he led the company’s global cybersecurity organization and enterprise risk initiatives. With more than 25 years of experience across security and engineering leadership roles at companies including NerdWallet, Yahoo!, Foursquare, and Microsoft, Bala brings deep expertise in cybersecurity strategy, application security, infrastructure, and enterprise risk management.
Mukund Sarma is VP of Security at Vercel and former Deputy CISO at Chime, where he led teams spanning application security, cloud and infrastructure security, detection and response, data security, and security engineering. With deep expertise across both strategic leadership and hands-on technical execution, Mukund specializes in building scalable security programs that enable innovation while maintaining trust. He also advises and invests in early-stage cybersecurity startups focused on identity and data security.
Adam Arellano
Field CTO
Harness
