[Digital Today reporter Chi-gyu Hwang] Cybersecurity startup Ent has raised $100 million in seed funding.

Security Boulevard reported on June 18 that Ent has developed an “intent-aware workspace security” platform that analyzes the behavior of employees, AI agents and applications. It is hosted in a customer-managed cloud. A lightweight endpoint agent observes activity across applications, browsers, AI workflows, data movement and local software execution environments. Moving beyond monitoring only file or process events, it analyzes behavioral context and intervenes before security incidents occur.

The company says this approach will become more important as AI agents connect more to corporate systems. Even if an agent appears to be performing normal tasks, it can follow malicious instructions or execute commands not included in the original request. Ent said its solution can be used for insider risk management, data leak prevention, AI governance, endpoint threat blocking and incident investigations.

Ent was co-founded by Elias Manousos (엘리아스 마누소스) and Brandon Dixon (브랜든 딕슨), who previously worked in Microsoft’s security division. The two participated in developing Microsoft Security Copilot after Microsoft acquired threat intelligence company RiskIQ.

Manousos said, “AI-based attacks do in seconds what used to take days,” adding, “By the time traditional security systems detect the problem, it is already too late.”