{"id":3491873,"date":"2026-09-23T17:44:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T17:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/23\/the-traditional-cybersecurity-model-is-collapsing\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T17:44:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T17:44:02","slug":"the-traditional-cybersecurity-model-is-collapsing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/23\/the-traditional-cybersecurity-model-is-collapsing\/","title":{"rendered":"The traditional cybersecurity model is collapsing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/the-traditional-cybersecurity-model-is-collapsing.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"jwppp-video-box-31683841\" class=\"jwppp-video-box\" data-video=\"1\">\n<p><span class=\"jwppp-instant\" data-video=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?jwp-instant-articles=1&amp;player=GQNKsmiX&amp;mediaID=NE39UkMj\" data-width=\"480\" data-height=\"270\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Loading the player\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the issue of AI safety and rogue agents continues to dominate the headlines, it\u2019s not surprising that cybersecurity stocks are experiencing a rise, nor that investors are channeling significant funds into startups that are working on the next wave of security solutions for an AI-inclined world. We\u2019re witnessing companies like Instinct and Simile attract nine-figure investments and valuations that would have seemed unrealistic a few years back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the forefront of this evolving landscape is Shardul Shah, a partner at Index Ventures who has devoted nearly two decades to investing in cybersecurity and enterprise software \u2014 which includes six consecutive funding rounds in the cloud security startup Wiz, acquired by Google for $32 billion earlier this year, marking one of its largest acquisitions ever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this episode of TechCrunch\u2019s Equity podcast, Shah speaks with Rebecca Bellan about why he believes that traditional, human-mediated security is no longer sufficient, and why Index continues to invest in AI-native security startups at stages that historically required much more substantiation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Subscribe to Equity on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, and other platforms. You can also follow Equity on X and Threads, at @EquityPod.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/the-traditional-cybersecurity-model-is-collapsing.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"jwppp-video-box-31683841\" class=\"jwppp-video-box\" data-video=\"1\">\n<p><span class=\"jwppp-instant\" data-video=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?jwp-instant-articles=1&amp;player=GQNKsmiX&amp;mediaID=NE39UkMj\" data-width=\"480\" data-height=\"270\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Loading the player\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the issue of AI safety and rogue agents continues to dominate the headlines, it\u2019s not surprising that cybersecurity stocks are experiencing a rise, nor that investors are channeling significant funds into startups that are working on the next wave of security solutions for an AI-inclined world. We\u2019re witnessing companies like Instinct and Simile attract nine-figure investments and valuations that would have seemed unrealistic a few years back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the forefront of this evolving landscape is Shardul Shah, a partner at Index Ventures who has devoted nearly two decades to investing in cybersecurity and enterprise software \u2014 which includes six consecutive funding rounds in the cloud security startup Wiz, acquired by Google for $32 billion earlier this year, marking one of its largest acquisitions ever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this episode of TechCrunch\u2019s Equity podcast, Shah speaks with Rebecca Bellan about why he believes that traditional, human-mediated security is no longer sufficient, and why Index continues to invest in AI-native security startups at stages that historically required much more substantiation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Subscribe to Equity on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, and other platforms. You can also follow Equity on X and Threads, at @EquityPod.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3491874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3491873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3491873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3491874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3491873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3491873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3491873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}