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"AI agents have entered the workforce. And they're not even on payroll.” Straiker was selected for TechCrunch’s 2026 Startup Battlefield 200, chosen from thousands of early-stage companies worldwide. As one of technology’s most influential publications, TechCrunch has helped spotlight the next generation of breakthrough companies. Startup Battlefield alumni include Dropbox, Cloudflare, and Discord. We're proud to join that community. At TechCrunch Disrupt, our CEO Ankur Shah shared the driving vision: “Intelligence should be synonymous with security, and security with Straiker.” For us, this recognition reflects a bigger shift. As AI agents take on more responsibility across businesses, security must become fundamental to how they operate. That's the future we're building. #Straiker #TechCrunch #TechCrunchDisrupt

I am glad we are having the debate on slowing the pace of AI development. I've been in technology for 25 years but I have never once seen an industry slow itself down on the honor system. AI will not be the first. Dario Amodei, Sam Altman and several of the labs are asking for exactly that. It takes nerve to say it out loud as a CEO and I respect him for it. But voluntary pacing will not survive the next model release. Commercial pressure on the labs and ambition out of China will settle this one. AI train is going to continue to barrel forward, best the industry can do is provide a safe passage. Dario named the mechanism himself. I agree with him that an independent entity with real access is the right idea, and government agencies should mandate it. The same rule applies inside every enterprise running agents: controls sit outside the model, owned by someone whose job is to say no. We have to be able to stop an agent mid-action, across every tool it already touched. Every critical system I have ever worked on shipped with a stop. Agents are the first going into production without one, which is why Straiker built the #AgentKillSwitch. We should stop asking the model to police itself. Put the controls back in front of humans.

It’s been a busy week for Straiker! 🚀 We’re excited to share two recognitions we received this week: 🏆 2026 SINET16 Honoree — Selected from 158 applicants across 10 countries through two rounds of evaluation by 100 security professionals, Straiker joins a cohort of innovators shaping the future of cybersecurity. 📖 Featured in Latio's 2026 AI Security Market Report — Included among providers of broader AI security (endpoints, SaaS, and first party), posture and testing, and as an AI vendor with application testing. Thank you to SINET, the judging committee, and the Latio team for the recognition, and to our customers and partners for your continued trust. We look forward to connecting with the cybersecurity community at SINETNew York on October 8! Ankur Shah | Sreenath Kurupati | Sriram Puthucode | Amy Heng | Parth Shah | Vinay Pidathala | Girish Chandrasekar | Phimm Phonpaseuth | James A. Beasley

🚀 Big news from the frontier of AI security. Straiker has been named a 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝐂𝐲𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟔𝟎 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲-𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫! We're recognized among the most promising companies defining the future of cybersecurity. This honor validates our mission to secure AI with AI and agents with agents, protecting the rise of agentic applications and autonomous systems shaping tomorrow’s enterprises. We’re proud to stand beside innovators transforming how the world builds, deploys, and defends intelligent software. This is just the beginning. 🚀 Thank you Fortune, Lightspeed, and Amazon Web Services (AWS)! Shout out to our team: Ankur Shah Sreenath Kurupati Arif Janmohamed Enrique Salem Amy Heng Jason Sansone Chris Sheehan Louis R. Girish Chandrasekar Vignesh Balasubramanian Mike Russo David McCaw Patrick McBride Vinay Pidathala Lawrence St John Joshua Geist

We’re honored to be named one of CRNs “𝟏𝟎 𝐇𝐨𝐭 𝐀𝐈 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐩𝐬 𝐓𝐨 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓.” AI is reshaping how enterprises think about security and Straiker is leading at the frontier of AI-native defense. From runtime guardrails to autonomous red-teaming, we’re building technology to protect agentic AI applications against the next generation of threats. Thank you to CRN for recognizing our mission to secure the future of AI.

🚨 BREAKING NEWS: CyberCartel, a criminal group with ties to Mexican cartel organizations, is using #Grok, #Kimi, and #Claude to attack 400+ banks and financial institutions across Latin America. Straiker uncovered how they did it, and it is a preview of where cybercrime is headed. CyberCartel, also using the group name Tr4nsHack, used AI as a tool, the way a company might hire a team of specialists and hand each one a job. In their system, which they call #CARLIY0S, one model researches the targets, another writes the attack code, and another sorts through the data stolen from victims. The clever part: to get past the safety guardrails built into these models, the operators simply told the AI it was working on an authorized security test. That framing was enough to get it to cooperate. Here is why it matters for your business or agency: 🔹 Attackers are getting faster and cheaper. A small crew can now operate like a much larger team. 🔹 You do not need to be using AI to be targeted by adversaries who are. 🔹 The target has not changed. It is still your applications, APIs, and sensitive data. Only the tooling is new. This is the shift from Advanced Persistent Threats (#APTs) to AI-powered Persistent Threats (#AiPTs). CARLIY0S is the first operation of its kind we have documented from inside the attackers' own environment, and it will not be the last.