The AI Securing Your Workforce Before a Mistake Ever Becomes a Breach | E2314
July 20, 2026 · 42 min
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Today's show:
*Cybersecurity has long focused on cleaning up a system AFTER a breach but Ent founder Brandon Dixon says that's backwards. He just raised a $100M seed round to put an AI agent on everyone's company laptops that catches the risky clicks, leaked files, or rogue agents BEFORE they wreck havoc.
PLUS Clawra creator David Im return swith his new project, Sume's Avatar, a multi-model orchestration layer that generates 60-second UGC videos from a single prompt… and gets it right on the first try, rather than falling back on trial and error.
Guests:
Brandon Dixon on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonsdixon/
Ent: ****https://ent.ai/
David Im on X: https://x.com/davidim
Sume: https://www.sume.com/
Relevant Links:
WSJ: "Cyber Security Startup Ent Raises $100 Million in Seed Funding": https://www.wsj.com/pro/cybersecurity/cyber-startup-ent-raises-100-million-in-seed-funding-a3e9b6c6
Microsoft Security Copilot: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/business/ai-machine-learning/microsoft-security-copilot
Engadget: "Meta 'pausing' employee tracking program…": https://www.engadget.com/2199458/meta-is-pausing-employee-tracking-program-after-it-let-the-whole-company-see-sensitive-data/
Seedance 2.0: https://seedance2.ai/
Timestamps:
Intro: Why AI + cybersecurity is the hot combo right now
How INT stops breaches before they happen
AI is giving non-technical employees dangerous new powers
Vanta - Compliance and security shouldn't be a deal-breaker for startups to win new business. Vanta makes it easy for companies to get a SOC 2 report fast. Get $1,000 off for a limited time at https://www.vanta.com/twist
Why on-device AI beats cloud-based security
Superhuman - Get AI that works where you work. Unlock your Superhuman potential at https://superhuman.com
INT's business model and go-to-market
YSecurity - The on-demand security team for startups. Need enterprise-grade security without hiring a $400k CISO? YSecurity gives you 40+ expert engineers, matched to exactly what you need, by the hour, with your first six hours completely free. Go to https://YSecurity.io/TWIST
David M. of Sumi Labs: one-shotting AI video
Live demo: Sumi's video orchestration API
Consistent faces, 60-second videos, and who's buying
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