What happened
On Sept 30 at Mastercard RiskX, Recorded Future premiered Autonomous Defense, built on the Intelligence Graph and Recorded Future AI: analysts task it with a goal, and agents autonomously run hunts, block threats, initiate takedowns and drive third-party remediation, with agents defaulting to full autonomy or a managed-autonomy dial.
Why it matters
It is one of the largest security vendors moving threat intelligence from answer-generation to agentic action — a direct competitor to the wave of autonomous-SOC agents from Sekoia, Stellar Cyber, Exabeam and Splunk, differentiated by 15 years of grounded intelligence rather than a generic agent loop.
Applicability
Recorded Future customers and organizations building agentic SOC response should evaluate the autonomous-defense preview for OSINT-driven hunt/block/takedown workflows; adopt in managed-autonomy mode first for compliance review.