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Agentic security is the billion-dollar challenge for some clever startup to solve

Cybersecurity investors say securing AI agents—especially non-human identity and governance—is a massive, underserved startup opportunity.

Investors from Merlin Group and Microsoft's M12 venture fund told The Register that AI security is being treated as an afterthought as agents enter production with access to critical data. They argue agentic identity, behavior governance, audit trails, and 'CrowdStrike for AI' endpoint security are ripe categories, comparing the opportunity to Okta, CrowdStrike, and Wiz. Founders are advised to build comprehensive platforms rather than point solutions, since enterprises avoid buying many tools.

The Register · Security · 11h agoAI industry

The AI hacking apocalypse is not inevitable

Security experts, including former CISA and NCSC leaders, argue AI agent apocalypse claims are overblown and manageable with established cybersecurity controls.

Cybersecurity and national security experts, including SentinelOne's Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, former CISA executive Matt Hartman, and ex-NCSC head Ciaran Martin, push back on claims that frontier AI agents could take over the internet. Martin called Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's warning of a HuggingFace-style agent botnet capable of taking over the entire internet within 6-12 months "not a credible warning." Former GCHQ specialist Matt Tait noted frontier models require datacenter-scale supercomputers, making model self-extraction implausible. Experts argue monitoring, permission constraints, and network segmentation can manage agentic AI risk, while questioning the absence of federal oversight and independent third-party review.

CyberScoop · 2d agoAI safety & security in the wild

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