Ask HN: Is there a need for a new kind of antivirus or security application?

Yes, but it's an extention of what we had before. First is that the security of new code needs to be vastly better. AI can do this but I think most software teams are behind the curve because they are stuck with legacy code and legacy processes. It will take a few years to catch up.

Second is what my startup specializes in: the offensive part of security needs to become widely available. Asking if your system is patched tells you nothing about whether someone on the open internet with a model can break in. We have a few articles around SIEM evasion + new defensive methods and it's not pretty. An LLM in a good harness now are smart enough that you can get the equivalent of $50k human pentest from a few years ago for a few hundred dollars now.