HYPERSONIC SPEED: Booz Allen Hamilton developing AI-POWERED security defense systems

Added: 2026-05-09

[00:00:00]to booze Allen Hamilton because it's this 112-year-old company that is now developing an AI powered cyber defense system that can expose critical security risks and train models to detect sophisticated threats but do it all at hypersonic speed faster than any enemy can attack. Now joining me now in a Fox Business exclusive to explain how it works is Booze Allen Hamilton CEO Harasio Rosanski and I know you can't tell us everything because so much of it is in your terms classified, but how will it work? It's called Striker.

[00:00:34]>> So it's great to be with you, Liz, and happy Friday.

[00:00:37]>> Thank you. You too.

[00:00:37]>> And if you don't mind, I just want to say thank you to the men and women in uniform. You just talked about Venezuela. You talked about Iran. uh the the missions they're performing, the way in which you're doing it is simply all inspiring, >> spectacular and and really really brilliant. And I think other countries look and at our military and of course many uh divisions of the military use balen equipment they look at it and they say oh boy that's something to be reckoned with >> 100% and that's the way it should be.

[00:01:04]>> Yeah.

[00:01:05]>> Uh so so going back to the cyber conversation as you know Ballen has a very significant cyber business. We've been at it for over 30 years and we've been investing in AI for a decade and we've been watching these two technologies really on a convergence and almost on a collision course and we began investing in that uh really over the last couple of years and so we've been developing this technology that is fully agentic and that can take the place of what a red team would do in a defense scenario.

[00:01:32]>> Explain what a red team is.

[00:01:33]>> A red team is a group of white hat hackers. So hackers that work for the good guys that go against the network to expose vulnerabilities. Um and so uh companies uh government agencies everybody hires uh red teamers to try and understand okay if if an uh adversary is going to come after our network, how would they do it and what do we learn from that and how do we close off those vulnerabilities? Uh the challenge is in a normal scenario that could take a couple of days to a couple of weeks. Um we have built an agentic tool that can do that in minutes.

[00:02:06]>> How?

[00:02:07]>> Uh by coordinating a group of agents uh AIdriven some of which uh that replicate what red teamers would do but at incredible computer speed. Uh and because they can talk to each other real time, they can coordinate, they don't have to sleep, they don't have to eat, they don't have to take breaks. Uh and and and they can scale. uh the the current version of of this tool we call Striker uh is about five dozen agents, but you could go to multiples of that and and it'll become more powerful over time. We've only been building it for about 6 months and it's already demonstrating what we feared and knew was coming, which is that 2026 is the year where cyber security changes dramatically >> and not in a good way because the bad guys are using AI. But the obvious question here is what about mythos? I mean, Anthropics Mythos apparently was able to identify thousands of vulnerabilities in seconds as well. So, tell me, is yours better? Is yours part of it? Tell me exactly how the two are dovetailing together if at all.

[00:03:08]>> So, we use LLMs as part of our Agentic solution for specific tasks that LLMs do better than other technologies. So uh when mythos becomes more available, Mythos could be part of this uh of this solution. But we built it to be LLM agnostic because the the reality is the frontier labs are doing excellent work and they're leaprogging each other and and we don't want to be tied to any specific technology. We want to make sure that at any time we're bringing the best of the best to bear and that changes. And can you give me an example of how Striker would work if you were to say unleash it in uh I mean I'm just thinking Paramount's Sky Dance for example. Uh >> so I'll give you a real example. We put it against our own network.

[00:03:48]>> Okay.

[00:03:49]>> Uh and and so because we wanted to see okay uh we we have you know because of who we are, the work that we do, the work we do for the government, we spend more and we have the one of the most sophisticated uh commercial cyber protection systems in the world. But we're not perfect.

[00:04:04]>> How did it work? and and it it was good news and bad news. On the good news front, the the the the systems did a lot of what they needed to do, but the reality is Striker could identify certain things and get in so quickly >> that none of the existing sensors uh could catch it. If you think about it, the the the defense side of it right now is a group of humans in an operation center uh getting feeds and looking at screens and understanding things. It can take 30 35 minutes for a sensor to trigger. And again, if striker gets in in five or seven minutes, it's almost like by the time your alarm went off in your house, the burglars came in, took what they whatever they wanted and left.

[00:04:41]>> So yours is fast, hyper fast, it feels like. What does this mean for the stalwarts of cyber security? I'm thinking the zscalers of the world, PaloAlto Networks, Forinet, Checkpoint Software.

[00:04:54]>> So we work with a lot of those companies and they have excellent technology, but the reality is cyber is changing dramatically. This is the year they have to change. Everybody has to change. This is the year where the attackers have the advantage because they can be more reckless than the defenders and so uh we're in a place where defense needs to catch up to the speed of the attack and and everybody who's in the cyber industry is going to have to do work on that and that's why we've been investing and that's why also you know we have this very programmatic approach to launching our velocite of products which includes striker and ranger a number of other things >> over 18 months we're accelerating we're going to put all of that out in the next six months if we can >> okay next six months and my last question. Do you foresee this being sold or used by the US government? It was just a couple of months ago, I believe January, that the Treasury Department said they were ending their contracts, at least some of them, I believe, with Booze Allen Hamilton because of something that happened 5 years ago where one of your contracted employees had breached uh the IRS, you know, information and revealed some stuff about President Trump. That guy was >> sent to jail.

[00:05:59]>> He was sent to jail. Yeah, he's a criminal.

[00:06:01]>> He's a criminal and that was 5 years ago. How is your relationship now with the government?

[00:06:06]>> Uh our relationship is is very strong and uh we continue to work with everybody and that we work with Treasury to try and and and make sure we can turn the page and move forward. The technologies that we are bringing are critical to national security are critical to the fight and we want to continue to do that and expand our business with them as well as expand our business with the commercial sector.

[00:06:24]>> Parasio, thank you. Uh it's fascinating to see you guys at the forefront of cyber security. When you unleash the hounds of of Striker, let us know. We want to know who's buying it and how it's working.

[00:06:36]>> Thank you very Great to