Cyera’s Yotam Segev on Agentic AI and the Changing Cyber Threat Landscape | Bloomberg
📅 Jun 25, 2026Cyera9 MIN28 VIEWS21 SEGMENTS · 2 SPEAKERS
Cyera Co-Founder and CEO Yotam Segev joined Bloomberg Daybreak to discuss the shifting paradigm of cybersecurity in the age of AI.
Following the ripples sent through the sector by Anthropic's "Mythos," Yotam breaks down why we have entered a fundamentally new era of risk by moving from fighting human adversaries to defending against machine-driven threats.
Watch as he outlines the critical need for automated, agentic defenses to secure the data, identity, and operational layers of the enterprise, and why trust remains the missing link for widespread AI adoption.
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Yotam Segev, co-founder and CEO of Cyera, discussed the evolving cyber threat landscape driven by agentic AI. He argued that US technology will eventually reach China despite government efforts, making it crucial to strengthen defenses. Segev described the current era as fundamentally new, where organizations fight machines, not humans, and emphasized that cybersecurity must reinvent itself beyond traditional vulnerability management. He positioned Cyera's focus on data, identity, and agentic layers as complementary to vulnerability-focused tools like Mythos, noting that defense requires multiple layers. Segev highlighted that enterprises like AT&T and Nordstrom face challenges adopting AI due to trust and security risks, sometimes rolling back deployments. He downplayed the need for regulation, stating companies are already taking necessary steps. He stressed that AI investment must be paired with security investment, noting CISOs lack budget compared to AI leaders. He cited examples of AI tools like Microsoft Copilot and Gemini getting too close to critical systems, causing rollbacks, but expressed optimism that AI can lead to a more secure world.
Key takeaways
US technology will eventually reach China despite government efforts, so organizations must double down on defenses.
Cyera focuses on data, identity, and agentic layers, which are distinct from vulnerability and infrastructure layers like Mythos.
AI investment must be paired with security investment; CISOs are not getting the budget they need.
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The frontier labs in the United States are obviously producing technology at the moment that poses and opens up the door for cybersecurity risks to grow. So what do you do with that if you've now got Chinese companies on the front foot as well? Yotam Segev is the co-founder and CEO of the cybersecurity startup Cyera. Good morning.
Nice to see you. If the Chinese get hold of US technology out of the labs that we're seeing coming out of the United States, the frontier labs, closed source, highly advanced technology, do they become a bigger threat going forward? How do you think about this epic arms race that is being fought between the United States and China when it comes to the cybersecurity story?
Certainly, and I think we've all seen the steps that the US government has taken to try to delay that from happening. At the same time, it's an eventuality. It will happen sooner or later. The technology will be prevalent and will be available to many, many people in all countries. And I think that this is really a time to double down on the defenses and make sure that our organizations, our governments, our companies are setting up the right foundation for success to really protect themselves from this eventuality.
How does that work? Because you have really advanced models that are capable of finding flaws in current security that is being used, and I'm wondering how, as a cybersecurity firm, you deal with that. The models are so good at finding the threats, can you stay ahead of that? How do you stay ahead of that? Is it possible to plug all the holes?
So first, I have to say that it's even worse than that. I think Mythos and the whole vulnerability story is a super important story for society and for organizations, but it's only the first chapter in the book. The book has many more chapters that are going to unravel over the next few years. And they're going to challenge every aspect of cybersecurity as it has been done before. And every aspect of cybersecurity is going to need to reinvent itself. IT management, IT hygiene, and things that we were able to get by with are just not going to make the cut anymore for an organization.
Absolutely. I think we used to fight humans and now we're fighting machines. We're living in the Terminator movie and we better get ourselves ready because it's going to be a much, much more intense battle.
So if Mythos is chapter one, we have many more chapters to come. Mythos is both defensive and offensive. On the defensive side, why would an enterprise use Mythos for defensive capabilities instead of using your product? What is your moat if these models keep improving?
So defense, when done well, is done in depth. You need many, many layers of defense in order to really achieve security. Any layer by itself will always be unsatisfactory. So Cyera is focused on the data, identity, and agentic layer. That is a completely different layer than the vulnerability and infrastructure layer which Mythos deals with. All of our customers need both. They need to be able to protect their infrastructure, as they have been doing and are doing, but they also need to be able to protect their data, to monitor their AI, to control what AI sees and what AI does. That is a completely different challenge than the one that Mythos poses in front of them. It's going to be critical because the attackers are no longer human. If a human used to stumble into an organization from a cyber perspective, start to look around, learn at a human pace, reconnaissance, understand what they're trying to achieve in that organization, today it's going to be an agent doing that, and it's going to be doing it so much faster than what our defenses were built to deal with that you have to streamline. You have to automate a lot of the fundamentals of cybersecurity that we used to handle manually. They're all going to have to become fully automated, fully agentic because only machines will protect us from machines. We're not going to be able to keep up as humans.
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Segev, Y. (2026, June 25). Cyera’s Yotam Segev on Agentic AI and the Changing Cyber Threat Landscape | Bloomberg [Interview transcript]. Cyera. CEOInterviews.AI. https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/1039791/
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Yotam Segev. "Cyera’s Yotam Segev on Agentic AI and the Changing Cyber Threat Landscape | Bloomberg." Cyera, 25 Jun. 2026. Transcript, CEOInterviews.AI, https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/1039791/.
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