Cybersecurity is now a token-attrition war of red vs blue agent swarms
AccBalanced · x · 2026-10-23
Reacting to "Black October", AccBalanced argues cybersecurity is rapidly becoming a battle of red agent swarms attacking infrastructure that only blue agent swarms can defend, at machine speed. Cyber is now a war of token attrition: losers can't convert energy to tokens at the highest speed and lowest cost, winners can. The attached graphic illustrates a red-vs-blue OODA loop labeled "Token Attrition."
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