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Ent Security raises $100M to bring prevention back to cyber
For most of the past decade, the security industry quietly gave up on prevention. Breaches were treated as inevitable, and the money went into detecting and cleaning up the mess afterwards. A new startup from two veterans of that industry says AI has made stopping the attack in the first place possible again, and investors have handed it $100m to prove it.
TL;DR
- Ent, a cybersecurity startup, has raised $100 million in seed funding to re-establish prevention as a key security strategy.
- The company leverages AI models that can run locally on endpoints, enabling real-time threat detection and intervention.
- This approach contrasts with the industry's recent focus on detection and response after a breach has occurred.
- Ent's 'workspace security' aims to monitor user actions across applications and AI agents to infer intent and block malicious activity.
- The startup has already secured deployments with Global 2000 customers in various sectors.