The TopCat AI Signal Report #76

SECURITY IS BECOMING A FIRST-CLASS AI PRODUCT

And the market is responding.

Fortinet announced today that it acquired Virtue AI, a company focused specifically on protecting AI agents while they’re operating—including monitoring tool calls, testing agent behavior, and identifying vulnerabilities continuously. (Express Computer⁠)

That’s significant.

Because cybersecurity used to focus primarily on:

people, devices, applications, networks.

Now we’re adding:

autonomous digital actors.

An AI agent can have credentials. ...