{"data":{"id":"6d9d4679-6b6d-42bf-bbe1-e6cf70f4cbd9","title":"Sequoia doubles down on Cymphony as AI agents create new enterprise security risks","summary":"AI agents now access sensitive corporate data and systems like human employees do, but they often bypass the same security controls, creating new risks that enterprises struggle to track. Cymphony, a startup backed by Sequoia Capital with $30 million in funding, is addressing this by building a 'workforce graph' (a unified view showing which employees, AI agents, and other non-human identities can access which systems and data) to help security teams identify and manage these exposures.","solution":"Cymphony's platform uses AI agents to investigate incidents, prioritize risks, and automate remediation including correcting access permissions. The platform can operate largely automatically, or customers can opt for a managed service where Cymphony's security experts handle more complex cases. The startup also helps identify over-exposed files and sensitive data accessible to AI tools, as demonstrated when it found approximately 85,000 files exposed at one U.S. public company and helped close the exposure.","labels":["security","industry"],"sourceUrl":"https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/09/sequoia-doubles-down-on-cymphony-as-ai-agents-create-new-enterprise-security-risks/","publishedAt":"2026-09-09T13:00:00.000Z","cveId":null,"cweIds":null,"cvssScore":null,"cvssSeverity":null,"severity":"info","attackType":[],"issueType":"news","affectedPackages":null,"affectedVendors":["Anthropic"],"affectedVendorsRaw":["Cymphony","Anthropic","Claude","Sequoia Capital"],"classifierModel":"claude-haiku-4-5-20251001","classifierPromptVersion":"v3","cvssVector":null,"attackVector":null,"attackComplexity":null,"privilegesRequired":null,"userInteraction":null,"exploitMaturity":null,"epssScore":null,"patchAvailable":null,"disclosureDate":"2026-09-09T13:00:00.000Z","capecIds":null,"crossRefCount":0,"attackSophistication":"moderate","impactType":["confidentiality","integrity"],"aiComponentTargeted":"agent","llmSpecific":false,"classifierConfidence":0.82,"researchCategory":null,"atlasIds":null}}