Enterprise cybersecurity automation platform Blink Operations Inc. today announced the launch of its artificial intelligence No-code Security Agent Builder, which will give security teams greater operational control over their security environments.

BlinkOps provides security teams with an AI-powered environment for visualizing their workflows to create customized processes instead of writing code. The company has an extensive automation library of over 8,000 prebuilt workflows and supports more than 30,000 application programming interface actions across the enterprise landscape for common security tasks.

It can integrate with hundreds of information technology and security tools, including those in Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Okta, CrowdStrike and ServiceNow, allowing teams to get up and running quickly.

“Security teams are under pressure to achieve more with less, and many are turning to automation and AI to keep up,” said Gil Barak, co-founder and chief executive of BlinkOps. “But prebuilt AI agents are the wrong approach for the enterprise as they fail to reflect the complexity of enterprise environments and create a false sense of security.”

AI agents differ from conversational AI chatbots in that they are capable of taking autonomous action, understanding complex goals, planning and executing multistep tasks across various systems. They can make independent decisions with little or no human interaction, making them ideal for working alongside humans to reduce tedium by handling repetitive and complex tasks.

Barak said BlinkOps agents can help overburdened security teams move faster and allow them to focus on strategic decisions rather than brute labor.

The company’s solution comes at a time when the security industry is suffering a labor global labor shortage, the 2024 ICS2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study estimated a global shortfall of 4.7 million professionals, up 19% from the previous year. The study said 67% of organizations surveyed reported staffing shortages leading to increased workloads.

Building custom agents while maintaining control

By combining agentic AI with BlinkOps’ already existing visual workflow interface and automation capabilities, the company looks to provide security teams with all the tools they need to create agents with defined roles, clear boundaries and access to the right knowledge. “This is how organizations scale security operations while staying in full control,” Barak said.

For example, a security team can configure specialized AI agents by defining their roles and responsibilities, such as “Malware Analysis Agent” or “Document Compliance Agent.” They can be attached to already existing security workflows built by security engineers, ensuring that agents can only perform actions defined by users, which lessens risks associated with unrestricted AI access.

BlinkOps said it designed the Security Agent Builder so teams could build agents to define specific tasks instead of overloading a large, complex agent. That way, each one could be called upon for an expert role to distribute tasks across focused agents and collaborate to solve complex problems in a scalable way.

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