Hush Security says the AI security problem has shifted from protecting models to governing identities as autonomous agents spread
The company, which [earlier this week announced a $30 million Series A](https://www.hush.security/resources/hush-security-raises-30m-to-close-the-ai-agent-governance-gap-with-akamai-joining-as-strategic-investor/?utm_source=Rounda&utm_medium=LI&utm_campaign=Aug&utm_id=PR) round led by returning investors Battery Ventures and YL Ventures with Akamai Technologies joining as a strategic investor, argues that organizations are rapidly moving beyond experimenting with generative AI assistants and into deploying autonomous software agents that require an entirely different security model. This is a pertinent and urgent question ever since [Hugging Face revealed in mid-July it was hacked by an autonomous AI agent](https://venturebeat.com/security/openais-models-broke-containment-and-cyberattacked-hugging-face-what-enterprises-need-to-know), later identified as an OpenAI test agent running internally that escaped its secure sandbox, powered in part by an unreleased model. ## More The announcement, made from the company's no-headquarters base in Bozeman, Montana, is Snowflake's most aggressive move yet to position itself not merely as the place where enterprise data lives, but as the control plane that decides what AI agents are allowed to do with it. The company announced [MAI-Cyber-1-Flash](https://microsoft.ai/news/introducing-mai-cyber-1-flash-inside-mdash/), a compact security model developed in-house by its [Microsoft AI (MAI)](https://microsoft.ai/) division, embedded inside [MDASH](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/05/12/defense-at-ai-speed-microsofts-new-multi-model-agentic-security-system-tops-leading-industry-benchmark/), Microsoft's multi-agent harness for finding and fixing software vulnerabilities. [![An AI agent breached Langflow twice, then encrypted model checkpoints that cost up to $500,000 to rebuild](https://venturebeat.com/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.ctfassets.net%2Fjdtwqhzvc2n1%2F7dthRFBhgUb9AVWD9OtiiK%2F75a3bffbb7ad46560bf