Cyber Defense Radio – Ankur Shah - Co-Founder & CEO of Straiker – Hotseat Podcast – 2026

🚨 New Episode of Cyber Defense Radio is LIVE!

🎙️ Hosted by Annabelle Thomas, Cybersecurity Champion of @CyberDefenseMag

In this powerful Hotseat Podcast interview, Ankur Shah, Co-Founder & CEO of Straiker, joins Cyber Defense Radio to discuss one of the most urgent challenges in cybersecurity today: protecting the rapidly growing workforce of autonomous AI agents.

AI agents are no longer just generating content. They are connecting to tools, accessing enterprise data, using credentials, calling APIs, interacting with MCP servers, and taking actions on behalf of businesses. Straiker is building an agentic security platform designed specifically for this new attack surface.

Learn how Straiker helps organizations:

✅ Discover AI agents, tools, MCP servers, and connected enterprise workflows

✅ Continuously map and understand agentic activity across the organization

✅ Red team AI agents against real-world attack paths before attackers can exploit them

✅ Detect prompt injection, indirect prompt injection, tool-use abuse, and unsafe agent behavior

✅ Protect AI agents at runtime before dangerous actions, data leakage, or policy violations occur

✅ Secure coding agents, productivity agents, and custom enterprise AI platforms

✅ Give security teams greater control over the emerging agentic workforce

✅ Move beyond traditional AI guardrails toward purpose-built runtime security for autonomous systems

Straiker’s platform combines Discover AI for agent visibility, Ascend AI for adversarial testing, and Defend AI for real-time runtime protection.

💡 The fundamental cybersecurity shift is simple: AI agents do not merely answer questions. They execute. When AI systems can use tools, access credentials, manipulate data, and take autonomous actions, the attack surface expands dramatically.

Straiker is focused on helping enterprises deploy and scale those agents safely by discovering what they are doing, testing how they can be manipulated, and stopping unsafe behavior at runtime.

The company has also demonstrated significant market momentum. In June 2026, Straiker announced a $64 million Series A, bringing its total funding to $85 million, with the company saying its technology is being used by Fortune 500 enterprises and frontier AI labs.

🛡️ Ready to secure the emerging Agentic AI workforce?

🔗 Learn more at: https://www.straiker.ai/

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