Mark Kuhr

CTO and Co-founder of Synack

Mark Kuhr is CTO and Co-founder of Synack, the leading platform for human and agentic AI-powered penetration testing. With more than 20 years of experience in cybersecurity, Mark co founded Synack to empower a global network of ethical hackers to test applications and networks for vulnerabilities at scale. Prior to Synack, he spent over nine years in cybersecurity roles at the National Security Agency and the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). Mark holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Auburn University earned under a DoD/NSA-sponsored fellowship. At Synack, he leads the engineering, operations, and product teams, overseeing the development and delivery of the company's platform and services.

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Agentic AI

Apr 13, 2026

Become Mythos-Ready and Close the AI Coverage Gap with Synack

Introducing the Glasswing-Readiness Assessment In my last post, we looked at the emergence of Anthropic’s Mythos and how it has collapsed the exploit timeline from weeks to days. But once you accept that the speed of the adversary has changed, a more difficult question remains for security leaders: What do we actually do now? The […]

Mythos Changes Everything: Why Your Entire Attack Surface Is Now at Risk

Anthropic’s Mythos announcement marks a genuine inflection point in the threat landscape. And for those of us who have spent careers watching it evolve, this one feels different. Building a reliable working exploit used to take a skilled attacker the better part of a year. With AI-powered offensive tooling, we’re looking at potentially days. That […]

Mark Kuhr

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