Straiker launches with $21 million in funding to secure enterprise AI applications
Summary
Its solutions include automated, red-team-level assessment within the companys runtime safety, and security guardrails for continuous analysis and automated blocking.The company says its solutions harness intelligence from each layer of the AI application stack including user, models, applications, agents, identity and data to ensure precise assessment results and industry-leading protection.Introduced today in general availability are two AI-native models. The first, Ascend AI, performs an in-depth attack simulation using an advanced, curated set of AI-specific safety and security threats. The engine enables customizations to address unique safety and security requirements with an architecture designed to preserve privacy.The service is supported by Straikers STAR team, a dedicated AI threat intelligence team that investigates the latest model and autonomous agent risks and researches the tactics, techniques and procedures being employed by adversaries.The company already has customers using its services, including People.ai Inc., Coupa Software Inc. and DirecTV LLC.AI is rapidly becoming one of the most significant cybersecurity risks. Enterprises must act now to stay ahead of these emerging risks and make AI security a top priority, said co-founder and Chief Executive Ankur Shah. Straiker is the only AI-native platform that delivers real-time protection against attacks aimed at each layer of AI apps and agents.Your vote of support is important to us and it helps us keep the content FREE.