Artificial intelligence (AI) security startup Pillar Security has raised $9 million in seed funding to expand its research and development (R&D) and market commitment.
Pillar Security’s solutions are designed to meet the needs of a new era of “software is now viable for agents and data itself.”
“Pillar’s technology, backed by real-world AI threat intelligence, is built with this understanding and offers a new class of protection explicitly designed for AI-related security risks,” says Sarig. “We are redefineing application security to match agents and autonomous software in the age of intelligence.”
The company’s security platform is specifically designed for AI integrated software systems, and according to the release it addresses areas of AI-specific risks such as evasion attacks, data addiction, data privacy and intellectual property leaks.
The platform integrates with your organization’s existing code repository, data infrastructure and AI/ML platform to automatically map all AI-related assets across your organization, test your AI, and deploy guardrails that proactively prevent breakdowns.
Shield Capital’s lead investor Elias Manousos is leading the funding round, and Pillar said Pillar understands that more agent AI solutions are deployed within the business and that more than gradual improvements are needed to protect software when the threat surface is growing.
“Their visionary approach sets new standards for how organizations protect and manage intelligent systems,” Manusus said.
Unlike rule-based bots, AI agents were reported in March that their actions have been decided in advance. Built on a generative AI model, AI agents can dynamically generate, understand, adapt and learn responses while having autonomy and decision-making capabilities to complete user-provided tasks.
This means that the Chief Financial Officer should approach agent AI like embedded past automation. Evaluate which processes can benefit, identify costs that can be removed, accelerate work and find potential benefits of reputation, George Westerman, senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management, said in March.
According to the Pymnts Intelligence Report, “Coos will leverage Genai to reduce data security loss,” and their companies have already implemented an AI-based automated cybersecurity management system (a triple increase since the beginning of this year).
