The Real AI Threat Is Two Dudes and a GPU with Damien Lewke, CEO & Founder of Nebulock

Oct 21, 2026

Damien Lewke, cybersecurity entrepreneur and founder of Nebulock, draws on experience defending against nation-state threats and leading AI security teams. He explores how ChatGPT changed offensive cyber capabilities, why software supply chains are especially vulnerable, and how AI agents create insider risk. The conversation also covers Nebulock’s hunt-first approach and the evolving cybersecurity market.

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ANECDOTE

The Threat Surface Outgrew The Corporate Network

Cybersecurity shifted from protecting a defined office network to securing distributed environments and AI-native companies.
Lewke highlights one-person companies reaching seven-figure ARR in six months while attackers continually discover new entry points.

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MIT’s AI Class Grew Tenfold After ChatGPT

MIT’s AI engineering class grew from 13 students in fall 2022 to 133 the following spring after ChatGPT launched.
Lewke immediately saw both defensive usability and offensive potential, including models helping reverse-engineer binaries and generate web shells.

INSIGHT

Nebulock Wants Attackers Nowhere To Hide

Nebulock aims to give every security team machine-speed detection and response against AI-scaled attackers.
Its platform combines data visibility with a workforce model where humans and agents operate together.

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Dan Nathan hosts Damien Lewke, CEO and founder of AI-native cybersecurity company Nebulock. Lewke recounts his career from nation-state defense at Northrop Grumman to CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, MIT research in NLP, and leading AI detections at Arctic Wolf. They discuss how the threat surface has expanded with distributed environments and how the ChatGPT moment accelerated both defensive usability and offensive capability. Lewke explains Nebulock’s “hunt-first” mission to give any team machine-speed detection and response, positioning it across converging markets like SIEM, MDR, AI SOC, and insider threat/UEBA. The conversation covers enterprise AI adoption, supply-chain risk, investor perceptions following “Mythos” breach disclosures and agent security as insider risk.

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