AI agents have made keeping track of IT activities far harder. Identity verification software company JumpCloud views CVC as a way to overcome that.
JumpCloud has become one of the best-known providers of identity verification software, but the artificial intelligence boom has brought new challenges that made it essential to launch a corporate venture capital arm, co-founder Antoine Jebara tells Global Corporate Venturing.
The company launched JumpCloud Ventures last month with a brief to invest in identity, security, AI, and IT productivity software developers in a bid to help create what JumpCloud calls a stronger and more interconnected IT and security landscape. AI is creating additional threats to that landscape, says Jebara. While the technology is bringing about more possibilities, but it also makes overseeing your network far more difficult.
“You now have code in the form of agents and workflows that has a lot more agency over what it can theoretically achieve,” he says. “The challenge is that, without the right guardrails, you are exposing yourself, your company and your customers to significant, unknown, uncapped risk.”
The key to security is knowing who is taking action on your network, logging those actions and monitoring them, Jebara adds. JumpCloud solved that problem for human a decade ago, and it was quick to devise a verification system for AI agents as well.
“But that’s not the full story. The full story is ensuring that the tooling that agents are using is appropriate, that the ripple effects of agent actions are properly measured and that the orchestration of an agent fleet that has access to different sensitive research is done in a meaningful way.
