- Adaptive security ensures $ 43 million in investment
- Openai listed as one of the most important investors along with A16Z
- Adaptive wants to tackle social engineering and deepfakes
Chatgpt Maker Openai has supported a security start in a sign that the company may be focusing more on cyber protection.
With generative AI that enables more sophisticated cyberattacks like Deepfakes and Phishing Content, Openai has revealed an important supporting role for adaptive security.
The New York-based start-up helps companies defend against AI-driven cyberattacks and already counts over 100 business clients on its books since public launch in January 2023.
Openai supports adaptive security
“I’m excited to announce our $ 43 million investment round, led by Andreessen Horowitz (A16Z) and Openai Startup Fund-there marks Openai’s first investment ever in a cyber security company,” shared Adaptive’s CEO and co-founder Brian Long.
Long noted that social technology remains the leading cause of security breaches, but artificial intelligence has enabled attackers to “[increase] The effectiveness and explosion of these attacks. “
It doesn’t just come down to the creation of content because AI can now emulate colleagues and business leaders to “make phone calls, send e emails or sms your team.”
For decades, decision makers, leaders and individuals from all walks of life have been shared whether we can fight fire with fire, but Long believes that AI can be the solution to AI-enhanced threats: “With the right models and data we can simulate realistic AI attacks, train employees to recognize threats, triage suspicious behavior and
Demonstrating how realistic Dybfakes can be long even has a deep subject of itself on the site that customers can interact with. I asked Brian to tell me about the company: “We offer a package of next generation cyber security education and simulation products designed to protect organizations from advanced threats,” he said.
It is unclear how much money Openai invested individually, but the fact that the AI giant is now involved in cyber security – not least that concerns the influence of its own products – is particularly remarkable.
