From Promise to Peril: Rethinking Cybersecurity Red and Blue Teaming in the Age of LLMs

Summary

This position article maps large language model (LLM) capabilities onto the MITRE ATT&CK and NIST Cybersecurity Frameworks. It finds that LLMs show fluency and versatility across cybersecurity tasks but remain fragile in complex, high-stakes settings, due to limited context retention, hallucinations, and reasoning gaps.