Endpoint Security Startup Ent Emerges From Stealth With $100 Million Seed Round

Ent has developed an intent-aware platform designed to interpret user and agent behavior before risky actions are carried out. The post Endpoint Security Startup Ent Emerges From Stealth With $100 Million Seed Round appeared first on SecurityWeek .

According to the report, Ent is an endpoint and workspace security startup that raised a $100 million seed round to launch an intent-aware platform that interprets human and AI agent behavior and intervenes before risky actions are completed.[1][2][8] The platform runs as an agent on endpoints, observes behavior across applications and workflows, infers intent in real time, and enforces customer-defined policies to prevent insider risk, data loss, and misuse of AI tools.[1][2] From a CyberSE.AI perspective, this highlights growing demand for controls focused on AI agent behavior and goal alignment on user devices, and creates a need to validate the accuracy and robustness of intent detection, policy logic, and inline interventions against adversarial AI agent abuse. Organizations adopting such agent-centric, intent-aware controls would benefit from red teaming AI-agent behaviors, auditing policy logic, and integrating secure design practices to avoid new failure modes where compromised or misclassified intent could be exploited.