Three months later, a competitor asked Aris how he protected his FileCatalyst transfer engine.

"It's beautiful, isn't it?" said Maya, his junior security architect, leaning over his shoulder. "Raw, unfiltered speed."

By the time Cortex Dynamics realized it, the corrupted dataset had been used to train an AI model for six days. The results were garbage. Two weeks of research, lost.

Throughput: 890 Mbps. WAF CPU load: 4%.