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High time to stop kicking the security can down the road, investor tells The Reg
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When it comes to AI models, security functions as an afterthought, as evidenced by increased instances of agents hacking organizations and people, and other security mishaps with agents gone rogue.
Key facts
- And the reality is, if the reporter is a CISO for a Fortune 500 company, no way the reporter is going to go buy 15 things to do one thing
- 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
- Hartman joined Merlin after a lengthy career in federal cybersecurity, including senior roles at the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
- Beyond agentic identity, AI endpoint security
- think of this as CrowdStrike for AI
- is another area ripe for inventive startups, Graham said
Summary
High time to stop kicking the security can down the road, investor tells The Reg. 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. 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.