A clear pattern with startups getting funding this week are "autonomous" products and features.

Automated detection engineering
Autonomously map and predict malicious infrastructure
..."helps your workforce resolve their own security issues autonomously"
automated remediation
automated compliance management & reporting

I'll believe it when I see it. Don't get me wrong, I think we're in desperate need of more automation when it comes to patching and security decision-making. I just don't think the majority of the market has the level of confidence necessary to trust security products to automate things without a human in the loop.

The way LimaCharlie is going about it, with their new bi-directional functionality they're talking up right now, might work, as detections can be VERY specific and fine-grained.

We've already seen a round of fully automated guardrail approaches (particularly in the Cloud) fail, however. My prediction? Either what we're seeing isn't truly automated, or it will become a part of the product that no one uses - like Metasploit Pro licenses.

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-359

Autonomous - I don't think that word means what you think it means - ESW #359