The Rise of the Agentic Era: Quantifying the Shift from Chatbots to Autonomous Security
Abstract
The security landscape is quickly changing As LLMs evolve into autonomous agents. A scientometric analysis of 22,416 papers reveals that Autonomous Vulnerability Discovery has increased 9.6× since 2023, now exceeding secure code generation and indicating a shift from static safeguards to more dynamic cyber-defense approaches.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Information and Cyber Security
Web Application Security Vulnerabilities
Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
Publication details
- Publication date
- 5 March 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Preprint