Reco raises $55M as AI agent security startups crowd the market

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Terms like “AI sprawl” have become common fare on tech social media and in thought leadership as enterprises start deploying AI agents en masse. But CISOs worried about securing swarms of agents suddenly operating across networks are likely finding themselves dealing with a new kind of sprawl: vendors offering to help.

Just a quick glance at public Crunchbase and PitchBook profiles turns up at least two dozen companies selling some form of AI agent security. Some vendors vet the tools agents use, while others try to help companies control what data their agents can reach. Some others, like CrowdStrike, are building detection and response controls on the devices agents run, and still others are focused on finding and resolving unapproved AI usage.

The products differ, of course, but their promises to discover and govern agents sound quite similar, involving knowledge graphs, continuous monitoring, runtime security, tool...

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