Ask HN: Is there a need for a new kind of antivirus or security application?

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Yes, but it's an extention of what we had before. First is that the security of new code needs to be vastly better. AI can do this but I think most software teams are behind the curve because they are stuck with legacy code and legacy processes. It will take a few years to catch up.

Second is what my startup specializes in: the offensive part of security needs to become widely available. Asking if your system is patched tells you nothing about whether someone on the open internet with a model can break in. We have a few articles around SIEM evasion + new defensive methods and it's not pretty. An LLM in a good harness now are smart enough that you can get the equivalent of $50k human pentest from a few years ago for a few hundred dollars now.