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PodcastNo PriorsOctober 23, 2026

Democratizing Security for the Agentic Web with CloudFlare CTO Dane Knecht

Cloudflare's CTO expects the majority of engineering resources to shift toward AI-driven security work over the next 18 months.

  • Vulnerability discovery spiking: Dane Knecht says CVE reports now surge weekly (vs. ~yearly log4j-style events before), driven by AI-assisted vulnerability hunting including by non-state 'agent kitties.'
  • Security to dominate engineering time: Knecht expects majority of Cloudflare engineering time to shift to security over the next 18 months, citing a keynote stat of over 50% already; echoes Greg Brockman's 2027 token-spend-on-security prediction.

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