Artificial intelligence is supercharging the cybersecurity software industry as the technology expands the number and changes the shape of its startups, says Daniel Bernard, chief business officer for cybersecurity software producer CrowdStrike. The changes are becoming apparent at the Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator, a partnership between CrowdStrike, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and artificial intelligence giant Nvidia. The accelerator recently announced its third cohort, admitting 35 startups, up from 22 two years ago. Mirroring the activity in the market, the startups in the programme are now increasingly AI-first. “Over the last three years, there has definitely been an evolution in the types of companies there at this early stage,” Bernard says. “Last year, I would say it was more like agentic managed detection and response [solutions], and two or three years ago it was more like cloud or data security companies. There are so many more AI security companies this year.”

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