Straiker launches an AI-agent kill switch after raising a $64M Series A

Ankur Shah is applying his cloud-security playbook to software that can write code, call tools and act across enterprise systems.

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Primary source: PR Newswire

Why it matters

AI agents are gaining production permissions faster than enterprises are building incident controls. Straiker is betting an emergency stop can anchor a wider security platform.

Illustration of Straiker's AI-agent kill switch engaging to take control of a sprawling enterprise system.

Ankur Shah launched Straiker's Agentic Kill Switch on Aug. 4th, giving security practitioners a control that Straiker says can take compromised or misbehaving AI agents offline in seconds.…

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