TLDR: Straiker, an AI security company, has launched new agentic security capabilities within its Ascend AI and Defend AI products. These “attack and defense agents” are designed to provide continuous security testing, automated enforcement, and full-chain forensics, addressing the unique threats posed by autonomous AI agents in enterprise environments.
SUNNYVALE, Calif. – August 5, 2025 – Straiker, a leading AI security company, today announced the introduction of groundbreaking agentic security capabilities within its flagship products, Ascend AI and Defend AI. These new “attack and defense agents” represent the industry’s first comprehensive solution specifically engineered to secure enterprise agentic AI applications, offering continuous security testing, automated enforcement, and robust chain of threat traceability.
The rapid adoption of autonomous AI agents is transforming enterprise operations, with the 2025 Stanford AI Index report indicating that 78% of organizations were already leveraging AI in 2024. While these agents can execute complex workflows with unprecedented speed, their power introduces novel security risks. Attackers are increasingly exploiting agents using natural language, leading to what Straiker terms “autonomous chaos™.” The company’s internal research highlights a significant vulnerability, revealing that 75% of tested applications were susceptible to direct or indirect prompt injection attacks, which can result in severe data exfiltration.
To counter these evolving threats, Straiker provides full-spectrum protection against prompt injection, reconnaissance, tool manipulation, and exploit defense through enforcement and forensics. The company aims to unify security functions across AI, offensive testing, and application security teams.
Ascend AI, Straiker’s autonomous agentic red teaming solution, is designed to craft highly accurate attacks and exploitation scenarios. It autonomously maps every prompt, tool call, and data interaction, providing comprehensive security scoring and identifying critical vulnerabilities that traditional manual testing might miss. This continuous assessment prepares organizations for production deployment and security audits.
Complementing Ascend AI, Defend AI instantly converts newly identified threats, such as indirect prompt injection and tool vulnerability exploitation, into real-time guardrails. This module moves beyond simplistic prompt-level protection to create an intelligent security shield that blocks threats across all layers of AI infrastructure, detects PII data leaks, harmful content generation, hallucinations, and agent misalignment, and minimizes false positives.
Ankur Shah, co-founder and CEO of Straiker, emphasized the need for autonomous defense in the age of AI agents. “If you can say it, you can spin up an autonomous AI agent and get it to perform tasks. That creative power deserves an equally autonomous defense. Straiker’s AI-native security is built to learn, adapt and fight back in real time – so the future with AI stays safe,” Shah stated.
Industry leaders have already recognized the value of Straiker’s innovations. Aman Sirohi, CISO at People AI, commented, “Straiker’s AI-native red teaming quickly adapted to our agentic AI application, enhancing our cybersecurity capabilities by providing guardrails to protect our AI agents from real-time exploitation and malicious behavior, thereby adding data security to our customer data.” Dan Garcia, CISO at EnterpriseDB, added, “Ascend AI stress-tested our entire agentic AI application stack, uncovering attack paths our manual red teaming exercises wouldn’t have been able to accomplish.”
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Straiker’s solution is built on three core capabilities: Continuous Agentic Red Teaming for proactive vulnerability discovery, Real-time Agentic Guardrails for immediate threat neutralization, and Full-Chain Agentic Forensics for accelerated root-cause analysis and simplified audits.
