If there was a theme this week from the cybersecurity industry there was this: Anthropic's Mythos is great for demand.
Rubrik CEO Bipul Sinha on its better-than-expected earnings call said:
"We are now in a new era of cybersecurity. Today, AI agents are attacking us. These autonomous agents can intrude, breach and encrypt at machine speed. Mythos was a powerful breakup call for the cybersecurity industry, but it is already something of the past. Better faster model versions are already in development. Mythos has proven that attack detection is near impossible and cyber resilience is now the most fundamental cybersecurity requirement for the AI era. In fact, Mythos is driving more customer conversations around cyber resilience and recovery. And that is one of the reasons why we have raised our top line guidance for the rest of the year. And at the same time, AI agents are increasingly running business processes. Workflows that assume identities, access sensitive data and take autonomous action. Once compromised, these agents can potentially inflict 10x more damage in 1/10 of the time."
Sinha said cyber resilience is a key theme and Mythos is speeding up those conversations.
"If you just look at what has happened post Mythos, I have personally done 140 CIO and CISO meetings in the last quarter, that is up 50% sequentially quarter-over-quarter. Cyber resilience is the only cybersecurity strategy that is viable for the AI era," he said.
Rubrik's first quarter non-GAAP earnings trounced estimates by 19 cents a share. The company raised its outlook for the second quarter to $395 million to $397 million compared to estimates of $382.83 million.
For those keeping score at home, Rubrik had 13 mentions of Mythos on its conference call.