Stopping a cyberattack while walking your dog - defensive AI security CEO says it's not ruff to do
- ID
- 14574
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 16 Aug 2026, 6:06 PM
- Fetched
- 16 Aug 2026, 7:01 PM
- Provider
- The Register
- Category
- technology
- Original URL
- https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/16/stopping-a-cyberattack-while-walking-your-dog-defensive-ai-security-ceo-says-its-not-ruff-to-do/5288126
- Source URL
- https://www.theregister.com/headlines.atom
Summary
- Score
- 4.5
- Created
- 16 Aug 2026, 7:01 PM
- Tags
- Audience
- ai_agent_usersdeveloperssaas_founders
What happened
Corma, an AI defensive-security startup founded about a year ago by Alon Pluda, raised a $60M seed round led by Sequoia Capital with Khosla Ventures and Coatue. Pluda claims frontier models (Claude Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5, Grok 4.3, DeepSeek V4) are getting exponentially better at offensive security but lag at defensive tasks because most defensive work doesn't involve code scanning.
Why it matters
The concrete takeaway is the claimed offensive-defensive capability gap in frontier models—if accurate, builders shipping AI agents for security or ops should not assume model proficiency at finding bugs translates to defensive orchestration. However, this is a CEO interview timed with a funding announcement, so treat the model-evaluation claims as unverified marketing until independent benchmarks appear.
Discussion angle
Does the claim that frontier models are strong attackers but weak defenders match what builders have actually observed when wiring agents into security workflows, or is this just a startup narrative?