San Francisco-based employee security posture management platform Riot has raised $30 million in a Series B round led by Left Lane Capital, with participation from existing investors Y Combinator, Base10, and FundersClub.

7AI has launched an agentic security platform, which uses AI agents to handle repetitive tasks.

Cybersecurity Innovator Empowers Security Teams to Focus on High-Value Tasks While AI Agents Handle Repetitive, Tactical Yet Essential WorkBOSTON, Feb. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The agentic security revolution is here. Today, 7AI announced the launch of the industry's first agentic security platform, redefining security operations by offloading essential "non-human work" to autonomous AI agents. Unlike AI SOC analysts, chatbots, or co-pilots, 7AI's system of specialized AI agents handles repetitive security tasks—quickly, comprehensively, and autonomously—freeing highly-trained cybersecurity professionals to focus on high-value work that improves security outcomes.In every cybersecurity team, employees spend time on essential work that doesn't require human creativity: triaging alerts, enriching signals, correlating telemetry, searching for known threats, and more. These tasks are vital but time-consuming, making them ideal for AI agents.7AI transforms this dynamic by deploying autonomous swarming agents to handle non-human work at scale:Categorization and Dispatch: AI agents determine which type of threat an alert pertains to, with examples including EDR, Cloud, Email, and Identity solutions. 7AI dispatches AI agents accordingly