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Getting Mythos-Ready: A Security and Engineering Problem | Harness Resource

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.

Published
June 10, 2026

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Key Takeaways

Security Must Move Beyond Pointing Out Problems

Security teams historically focused on merely identifying issues, which frustrated engineering teams. The dynamic must shift toward actionable solutions and collaborative fixing.

Traditional Vulnerability Databases Are Falling Behind

The CVE system and NVD databases currently lack enrichment for tens of thousands of vulnerabilities. This heavy reporting process disincentivizes open source maintainers and delays vendor patching.

Mythos Excels at Binary Vulnerability Discovery

Mythos can effectively disassemble and identify vulnerabilities in compiled binaries like C and C++. It does not require access to the original source code to find these flaws.

Exploitation Timelines Require Attack Surface Management

The time from vulnerability discovery to exploitation is dropping to almost zero. Organizations must counter this rapid weaponization by investing in software hygiene, reachability, and attack surface management.