Aaron Levie: Agent clusters for cyber defense will become one of AI's largest categories
Box CEO Aaron Levie believes that agent clusters used for cyber defense are about to become one of the largest categories in the AI field. He judges that security is the most suitable use case for agent clusters, because in this field the more compute is invested, the higher the value produced, and a large number of tests that are hard for humans to cover or complete in time can be handled by agents. He cites an Enclave announcement saying that attackers are already using cheap AI agent clusters to probe for weaknesses around the clock.
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The author lists security as the most fitting scenario for agent clusters, and gives the basis for judging the correspondence between compute investment and defense returns.
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View original postBig news: Enclave is now open to everyone, and today we're launching Threat Feed. Enclave is an autonomous security team for AI-native companies: a fleet of security agents that test your code, cloud, and infrastructure the way an attacker would. We built it on a simple belief. Attackers already use swarms of cheap AI agents to probe for weaknesses around the clock, so defenders need agents of their own to keep up. A small team without a security function should be able to defend like a large one. Threat Feed is the newest piece: a live feed of new vulnerabilities, checked against your stack, so when the next big disclosure drops you know whether it affects you. This week made the case. On Wednesday, PHP2Shell, LiteLLM and Railway all disclosed security issues. PHP2Shell had sat in PHP's code for over a decade until one researcher using frontier AI turned it into a working exploit in about a week. Cloudflare saw thousands of exploit attempts in the 10 hours before disclosure and millions since. Starting today, anyone can sign up. Try it free for 14 days: https://t.co/KEjswP2ZMh
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Big news: Enclave is now open to everyone, and today we're launching Threat Feed. Enclave is an autonomous security team for AI-native companies: a fleet of security agents that test your code, cloud, and infrastructure the way an attacker would. We built it on a simple belief. Attackers already use swarms of cheap AI agents to probe for weaknesses around the clock, so defenders need agents of their own to keep up. A small team without a security function should be able to defend like a large one. Threat Feed is the newest piece: a live feed of new vulnerabilities, checked against your stack, so when the next big disclosure drops you know whether it affects you. This week made the case. On Wednesday, PHP2Shell, LiteLLM and Railway all disclosed security issues. PHP2Shell had sat in PHP's code for over a decade until one researcher using frontier AI turned it into a working exploit in about a week. Cloudflare saw thousands of exploit attempts in the 10 hours before disclosure and millions since. Starting today, anyone can sign up. Try it free for 14 days: https://t.co/KEjswP2ZMh
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Agent swarms for cyber defense is about to be one of the biggest categories in AI. We are going to have agents reviewing our code and infra, testing every permutation of risk, processing gobs of data, and more.
Security is one of the best use-cases for swarms because it’s an obvious area where more compute in equals more value out. There’s a wide range of testing that people can never get around to - or at least quickly enough - that agents have no problem going after.
Going to be a wild time in cyber.