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You thought generative AI was a technological tidal wave of change coming for enterprises, but the truth is — at 2.5 years since the launch of ChatGPT — the change is only getting started. A whopping 96% of IT and data executives plan to increase their use of AI agents this year alone, according to a recent survey from Cloudera covered by CIO.
However, with this comes a whole host of other considerations for the organizations moving in this direction, perhaps foremost of which: how to protect the security of the organization’s software, data, and other digital systems, especially as more and more agents arrive that can conduct actions autonomously, on their own, with minimal human oversight?
Cyata, a Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity startup, was founded to tackle this mission head on and is today emerging from stealth to show enterprises how.
It’s backed by $8.5 million in seed funding led by TLV Partners with participation from notable angel investors and former Cellebrite CEOs Ron Serber and Yossi Carmil. Meanwhile, Cellebrite’s former VP of Business Development Shahar Tal serves as Cyata’s co-founder and CEO. Cellebrite, you may recall, is the infamous security firm that developed ways to bypass the security or “crack” Apple’s highly secure and encrypted iPhone for law enforcement customers, so the bonafides of the founders are real.
“This is a paradigm shift,” said Tal in an interview with VentureBeat. “Like the move to cloud, we’re watching software change in front of us. Enterprises need new guardrails to handle the velocity and autonomy of these systems.”
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A new control dashboard for agentic identities
Cyata’s platform introduces a purpose-built solution to govern what it refers to as “agentic identities”—AI actors that perform tasks autonomously.
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