# AI Agents Have Passwords. Startups Race to Secure Them.

- slug: ai-agents-have-passwords-startups-race-to-secure-them
- date: 2026-04-02
- category: Artificial Intelligence

While $3B poured into Israeli startups in Q1, the real signal was $171M across four AI-security companies in a single month: the country at war is also becoming a lab for the non-human identity problem.

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