Upwind Acquires AI Security Startup Aegis, Launches AI Security Labs
Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing both enterprise technology and the cybersecurity landscape, creating new challenges around AI agents, plugins, skills and the attacks that can be generated with increasingly capable models. Against that backdrop, cybersecurity company Upwind has acquired AI security startup Aegis and launched Upwind AI Security Labs, as first reported by Axios.
The initiative brings Aegis co-founders Omri Limor and Saar Ankonina into Upwind, where they will lead a research and engineering effort focused on advancing security capabilities for AI-powered attacks. The move also expands Upwind’s existing focus on securing cloud and AI environments.
Bringing Aegis Into Upwind
Aegis was founded by Limor and Ankonina, two entrepreneurs and 8200 alumni who began their careers together in the intelligence unit, which focuses on offensive cybersecurity. The founders worked alongside one another during their time there, later serving in a commander-subordinate relationship before eventually becoming peers again.
After leaving...
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