{"id":199954,"date":"2024-11-22T05:24:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T11:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/this-ai-agent-will-defend-you-from-cyber-attacks"},"modified":"2024-11-22T05:24:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T11:24:06","slug":"this-ai-agent-will-defend-you-from-cyber-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/this-ai-agent-will-defend-you-from-cyber-attacks","title":{"rendered":"This AI Agent Will Defend You From Cyber Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-ai-agent-will-defend-you-from-cyber-attacks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Coming out of stealth, cybersecurity startup <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twinesecurity.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"http:\/\/www.twinesecurity.com\/\" aria-label=\"Twine\">Twine<\/a> announced today $12 million in seed funding, co-led by Ten Eleven Ventures and Dell Technologies Capital, with participation from angel investors including the founders of Wiz. Twine plans to address cybersecurity\u2019s critical talent shortage by developing AI agents or \u201cdigital employees\u201d to augment companies\u2019 security teams. Alex, Twine\u2019s first digital employee, is an expert in identity and access management or IAM.<\/p>\n<p>Alex is deployed as a SaaS platform, connecting to different systems within the customer\u2019s environment. \u201cThe user interacts with the Alex interface in order to ask him questions or assign tasks,\u201d explains Benny Porat, Twine\u2019s co-founder and CEO. \u201cFor any task assigned, Alex creates a plan, seeks approval, provides full visibility, and proceeds with an A-to-Z execution of the plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a report published a few months ago, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www3.weforum.org\/docs\/WEF_Strategic_Cybersecurity_Talent_Framework_2024.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www3.weforum.org\/docs\/WEF_Strategic_Cybersecurity_Talent_Framework_2024.pdf\" aria-label=\"World Economic Forum warned\">World Economic Forum warned<\/a> that the \u201ccybersecurity industry faces a critical global shortage of nearly 4 million professionals.\u201d This at a time when the rapid adoption of cloud computing, remote work and new AI solutions has significantly increased the number of cyber attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming out of stealth, cybersecurity startup Twine announced today $12 million in seed funding, co-led by Ten Eleven Ventures and Dell Technologies Capital, with participation from angel investors including the founders of Wiz. Twine plans to address cybersecurity\u2019s critical talent shortage by developing AI agents or \u201cdigital employees\u201d to augment companies\u2019 security teams. Alex, Twine\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}