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Glilot Capital Partners’ Kleinstein on How Gen AI Transforms the Security Landscape
Startups born in the generative AI era have a natural advantage over incumbents due to their lack of legacy systems. They are also embedding AI deeply into product architecture, optimizing automation, detection-response capabilities and data analytics, while baking in security.
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“Gen AI will have a 360-degree impact, starting from a better detection-response capability, data analytics and automation of processes that are done manually or semi-manually,” said Arik Kleinstein, co-founder and managing partner, Glilot Capital Partners. “So, I think it will have a very horizontal and vertical impact on the whole cybersecurity industry.”
He cited an example of a portfolio company that automates the creation of new security applications – just by using natural language prompts. “So you can guide it through step-by-step until you have a working application that you can immediately deploy,” he said.
In this video interview with Information Security Media Group at RSAC Conference 2025, Kleinstein also discussed:
- How cyber startups are embedding AI technologies into product architecture;
- Approaches to safeguard data and models;
- Managing costs when scaling gen AI projects.
Kleinstein has spent over 25 years identifying, funding and scaling innovative technology companies. As co-founder of Glilot Capital Partners, he uses his deep experience from the early days of Israel’s startup ecosystem to drive investment decisions and provide hands-on support to portfolio companies. One of the early investors in cybersecurity, he has been involved in more than 40 investments in early-stage enterprise software companies, with 19 Glilot-backed companies successfully acquired since the fund’s inception. He began his career as an officer and engineer in a IDF technology unit.