{"id":90632,"title":"Casco - Agentic Red Teaming for AI agents and apps","tagline":"Secure AI agents and apps","body":"Hi everyone - we’re Rene and Ian, ex-AWS AI \u0026 Security, and we’re thrilled to introduce [Casco](https://casco.com)! Casco prevents AI agents and apps from messing up by evaluating them for security, safety, and accuracy.\n\nCasco already secures AI systems deployed in 60% of Fortune 500 companies.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/SWPnB-GADdE\n\n**The Problem** \n\nCompanies building AI agents and apps face a disproportionate amount of cybersecurity threats that put their business at risk. 73% of enterprises experienced at least one AI-related security incident (that they know of) in the past 12 months, with the average incident cost amounting to $4.8m. It takes 40% longer for companies to identify and address these AI-related incidents.\n\nExisting solutions do not work for these companies:\n\n1. Automated scans yield low-quality, noisy security findings.\n2. Thorough security evaluations are cost-prohibitive to most companies.\n3. New AI attack vectors are emerging faster than companies can adapt.\n\n**Our Solution: Casco’s supervised, agentic red-teaming**\n\nCasco proactively uncovers critical vulnerabilities before attackers do. Here’s how:\n\n1. **Sophisticated, AI-Driven Attack Simulation:** Casco uses advanced techniques, just like an expert human red teamer, to devise and execute multi-step attacks against your AI agents and apps.\n2. **Human-Validated Expertise:** The AI evaluations are supervised and validated by our team, ensuring high-fidelity findings. We’ve built and secured AI systems, applications, and cloud infrastructure at AWS, Microsoft, and the US government.\n3. **Actionable, Compliance-Ready Reports:** Casco provides comprehensive reports with reproduction steps, risk explanations, and remediation guidance, aiding compliance with SOC 2, NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act, and ISO 27001.\n\n**Our Story**\n\nAs founding members of the Generative AI team at AWS (Lead Engineer + Security, Head of Product), we witnessed the evolving landscape of AI agents and applications. We identified emerging security gaps as traditional security practices struggled to keep pace with this new paradigm.\n\nRecognizing the critical need to secure AI systems, we decided to build Casco. Our mission is to empower builders to innovate confidently, knowing their AI systems are secure.\n\n**Secure your AI agent and apps**\n\nIs your AI agent or app secure?\n\n* [**Book a Demo**](https://calendar.app.google/LZybyH27Pd4ScXPk6) to secure your AI systems","slug":"NZo-casco-agentic-red-teaming-for-ai-agents-and-apps","created_at":"2025-05-22T15:09:00.327Z","updated_at":"2026-05-24T08:14:31.468Z","total_vote_count":122,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NZo-casco-agentic-red-teaming-for-ai-agents-and-apps","share_image_url":"//bookface-static.ycombinator.com/assets/ycdc/yc-og-image-c440a0ad1dacfb86eeeb343717479cc54d256614449b4ef719977a0a451f8bc8.png","company":{"id":30477,"name":"Casco","slug":"casco","url":"https://casco.com","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/aad91c0390b62c24c8473857d3ed3043cad61263.png","batch":"Spring 2025","industry":"B2B","tags":[],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/30477"}}