Agentic security is the billion-dollar challenge for some clever startup to solve
High time to stop kicking the security can down the road, investor tells The Reg..
High time to stop kicking the security can down the road, investor tells The Reg.
The short version
- There's also an opportunity here for companies to offer new solutions.
- This should not come as a shock to anyone, according to cybersecurity investors and accelerator executives.
- “On one hand, we shouldn’t be surprised that increasingly capable agents are finding creative and sometimes unexpected ways to accomplish their objectives,” Matt Hartman, chief strategy officer at Merlin Group, told The Register .
What happened
“On the other, we can’t accept harmful behavior as inevitable or unmanageable.” It’s the same story that plays out with every emerging technology, from laptops to cloud, said Todd Graham, managing partner at Microsoft’s M12 venture fund. “Every time we've built a new piece of infrastructure, we've conveniently forgotten the security,” Graham told The Register . Herein lies the opportunity for early-stage security companies.
Why it matters
“If laptops were default secure, we wouldn't have CrowdStrike,” Graham said.
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