Data loss prevention gets a second act as AI rewrites an old security problem

This shift is playing out through partnerships as much as products. Israeli startup Jazz emerged from stealth in March with $61 million in funding and was named winner of the 2026 Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator run by CrowdStrike, AWS and Nvidia, according to Ido Livneh, Jazz’s co-founder and chief executive officer. Jazz’s agentic investigator, Melody, is now available as a native application on CrowdStrike’s Falcon Foundry, the marketplace and development environment where customers build their own agents.

“We didn’t build yet another pattern match or another rule-based system, but we completely upturned the whole challenge with our approach, which is building an investigator, a context-first, business-first investigator that understands your business, understands not only what is happening with the data flows, but why it’s happening, the intent, and solving it through that,” Livneh told theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, at Fal.Con 2026.

Judging the accelerator gave the sponsors a way to vet thousands of startups against gaps in their own stacks, rather than flying small teams out to meet a few dozen founders at a time, said CJ Moses, chief information security officer and vice president of security engineering at Amazon.com. Data protection was one of those gaps, and one with a long record of disappointment. “In my experience, DLP providers have never done what DLP actually stands for. They’ve never done the data loss prevention,” Moses said. He added that with AI now able to deal with the large scale of information, Jazz’s implementation was game-changing for him.

The ecosystem tie has sharply accelerated Jazz’s business. “Since winning, that’s just only a quarter and a half ago, we more than doubled our book of business. We almost tripled our revenue. We 5x our inbound leads, we 10x our pipeline,” Livneh said.

Daniel Bernard, chief business officer of CrowdStrike, framed that as deliberate strategy rather than charity. Chief information security officers manage about 70 tools on average, and consolidation pressure is real, but no single platform will absorb the rest, he said. “We’re not here to take that number from 70 to one. That’s not the game we’re playing. Security’s not a winner-take-all market, and any vendor that says I’m going to replace all your other vendors, probably not true. What is true is you gotta be open and let the customer choose.”

Moses also highlighted a broader reset in how fast defenders must move. Patch windows have collapsed — CrowdStrike’s 2026 Global Threat Report found the average eCrime breakout time fell to 29 minutes, with the fastest observed intrusion occurring in just 27 seconds — and exposure time is now the metric that matters. “The AI that you’re using today is the worst AI you’ll ever use. It’ll always be getting better. Security through obscurity is dead. Now you need to focus on being able to do things in the shortest period of time possible. And if you don’t, others will find it for you,” he said.