Security control testing company Scythe and AI runtime assurance company Starseer announced a strategic partnership recently that would help organizations defend themselves against AI-driven cyber-attacks.
The companies said the partnership will combine their spheres of expertise in order to provide businesses with solutions to prepare for the threat of AI-enabled and autonomous adversaries.
“AI is becoming an attack surface faster than most security programs can adapt,” Tim Schulz, CEO and co-founder of Starseer, said. “By combining SCYTHE’s ability to safely emulate real adversary behavior with Starseer’s depth of visibility to control the very decision-making process that AI makes, we’re giving defenders a safe and reliable way to test their security posture against AI-enabled threats.”
The companies said they would launch a joint solution that focuses on Shadow AI Readiness Assessments to address a blind spot in cyber security – unauthorized AI models and inference capabilities deployed across an enterprise which can be co-opted by cyber actors to establish agentic footholds.
The companies said their solution will look for organization readiness through the detection of unauthorized, tampered or malicious AI models within the environment, response capabilities when adversaries co-opt AI infrastructure and forensic analysis of model provenance, tampering and adversarial use.
“Enterprises already know how to test endpoints, networks, and cloud controls, but very few know how to test AI as an attack surface,” said Bryson Bort, CEO and founder of SCYTHE. “This partnership lets security teams safely emulate AI-native attack paths, validate whether controls actually work, and produce defensible evidence that they can detect adversarial AI models and agents in their enterprise.”