OpenAI just made its first cybersecurity investment
Generative AI has greatly expanded the toolkit that is available for hackers and other bad actors. It is now possible to do everything, from the depth of a CEO to making fake coupons.
OpenAi, the largest generative AI startup of all, knows this better than anyone else. And it has just invested in another AI startup that helps companies defend themselves against these types of attacks.
The New York -based Adaptive security has raised a Serie A of $ 43 million that was co-led by the Startup fund of OpenAi and Andreessen Horowitz, the announced Wednesday. This marks the first investment of OpenAi in a startup of cyber security, confirmed to WAN.
Adaptive security simulates by AI generated “hacks” to train employees to recognize these threats. You can pick up the phone to listen to the voice of your CTO to request a verification code. That would not be your actual CTO, but a spoof generated by adaptive security.
Adaptive security platform Not only deserves phone calls: it also deals with texts and e -mails, while it scored which parts of a company are the most vulnerable and the training staff to recognize the risks.
The startup focuses on hacks that a human employee require to do something they are not allowed to do, such as click on a bad link. These kinds of ‘social engineering’ hacks, although fundamentally, have led to enormous losses – think of Axie Infinity, which lost more than $ 600 million to a fake offer For one of the developers in 2022.
AI-tools have made social engineering hacks easier than ever, co-founder and CEO Brian Long told WAN. Launched in 2023 in 2023, Adaptive now has more than 100 customers, with long -saying positive feedback from them to attract OpenAi to the CAP table.
It does not hurt as long as an experienced entrepreneur with two previous successes: mobile advertising startup Tapcommerce, whom he sold to Twitter in 2014 (reportedly for more than $ 100 million) and AD-Tech company Attent, which was last appreciated at more than $ 10 billion in 2021 in 2021 in 2021 in 2021 One of the investors.
Long told WAN that adaptive security will mainly use its latest financing for hiring engineers to expand his product and keep the AI ”Weapon race” against bad actors.
Adaptive security agrees with a long list of other cyber startups that work on the tree in AI threats. Cyberhaven has just collected $ 100 million from a valuation of $ 1 billion to help prevent staff from having sensitive information in tools such as Chatgpt, Forbes reported. There is also Snyk, who partially credit the rise of uncertain AI-generated code to help push his arrest to the north of $ 300 million. And starting DeepFake Detection Tealing just raised $ 17.5 million last month.
As AI threats become more advanced, Long has a simple tip for business staff who are worried about getting their voice through hackers. “Remove your voicemail,” he recommends.
