Pluto Security raises $42M as AI gives enterprise security teams a new headache

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The problem with giving everyone in a company access to AI tools is that people will use them in unexpected ways. And that fact is steadily seeding fears that companies now have new, gaping security holes in their systems or, at least, will soon.

Illustrating the pace of AI tool adoption within enterprises driving such fears, Shahar Bahat, CEO and co-founder of Pluto Security, says a newly announced AI tool can show up inside companies’ environment within a mere two hours of its release. And about 60% of the risks her company detects across its customer base are in tools vibe-coded by non-developers: Finance departments are the biggest source of such risks, she told TechCrunch, followed by marketing and legal teams. Developers rank fourth, she said.

Her startup’s tools apparently found a vibe-coded app made by a finance employee at a Fortune 500 company to manage customer information and...

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