Obsidian Security raises $85M as AI agents create cybersecurity's next major attack surface
has raised an $85 million Series D funding round at a post-money valuation of $1. 1 billion as enterprises increasingly look to secure autonomous artificial intelligence agents accessing cloud applications, Chief Executive Hasan Imam said today in an exclusive interview with theCUBE with me at our NYSE Wired studio in NYC. ] The post Obsidian Security raises $85M as AI agents create cybersecurity's next major attack surface appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
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- SiliconANGLE UPDATED 12:52 EDT / AUGUST 04 2026 AI Obsidian Security raises $85M as AI agents create cybersecurity's next major attack surface by John Furrier Obsidian Security Inc.
The round was led by Crescent Cove Advisor with participation from Greylock Partners and Menlo Ventures .
- " Imam said more than 65% of the company's enterprise customers have already granted AI agents access to data within third-party software-as-a-service applications, creating new security challenges that traditional identity and access management platforms were not designed to address.
The rapid adoption of AI agents is creating a new category of cybersecurity focused on non-human identities.
- The agents are interacting with a non-human identity inside the third-party application to act on data.
Our ability to provide governance and runtime enforcement, where we can prevent catastrophic actions inside third-party applications, is a unique capability.
- This is a huge issue, and they're are going to have identities.
Imam argued the industry's traditional approach to cybersecurity-detecting threats and relying on security operations teams to investigate alerts-will not be sufficient as AI agents operate at machine speed.
- " The company believes securing interactions between applications, AI agents and cloud services will become one of the fastest-growing segments of enterprise cybersecurity as organizations expand the use of autonomous systems.
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- #has raised an $85 million Series D funding round at a post-money valuation of $1.
- #1 billion as enterprises increasingly look to secure autonomous artificial intelligence agents accessing cloud applications, Chief Executive Hasan Imam said today in an exclusive interview with theCUBE with me at our NYSE Wired studio in NYC.
- #has raised an $85 million Series D funding round at a post-money valuation of $1.
- #1 billion as enterprises increasingly look to secure autonomous artificial intelligence agents accessing cloud applications, Chief Executive Hasan Imam said today in an exclusive interview with theCUBE with me at our NYSE Wired studio in NYC.
SiliconANGLE UPDATED 12:52 EDT / AUGUST 04 2026 AI Obsidian Security raises $85M as AI agents create cybersecurity's next major attack surface by John Furrier Obsidian Security Inc. has raised an $85 million Series D funding round at a post-money valuation of $1. 1 billion as enterprises increasingly look to secure autonomous artificial intelligence agents accessing cloud applications, Chief Executive Hasan Imam said today in an exclusive interview with theCUBE with me at our NYSE Wired studio in NYC.
The round was led by Crescent Cove Advisor with participation from Greylock Partners and Menlo Ventures . The funding comes as enterprise start adopting autonomous agents with access to corporate data, software code, and other critical enterprise systems required to power the new AI agentic workloads. According to the CEO, the money will be used to expand research and development and accelerate go-to-market investments as organizations rapidly adopt AI agents that interact with enterprise software using non-human identities.
"The raise is on the back of two things," Imam said. The second is what we've seen over the last year with agents accessing data inside third-party applications.
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