An investor told The Register that agentic security—protecting the systems and workflows around autonomous AI agents—is a "billion-dollar challenge" awaiting the right startup. The investor argues that the industry has been postponing this problem and that the moment has come to treat it seriously.
The Register frames the opportunity as wide open: no company has yet delivered the definitive solution, so a clever startup could step in and build a large business around it. Because the piece centers on one investor's point of view, it does not present competing opinions; the message is primarily a call to action for founders, engineers, and security teams to work on agentic security.