Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht: token spend will shift to security over the next 18 months
No Priors · rss · 2026-10-23
No Priors: Sarah Guo interviews Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht live from Cloudflare Connect on securing the agentic web:
- Security has been an afterthought in the transition to the agentic web; the attacker landscape is shifting and enterprises are racing to define AI security
- Companies that moved to zero trust are better positioned than castle-and-moat holdouts; the SDLC must change to patch 70 years of legacy software
- He predicts token spend over the next 18 months will go primarily to security rather than engineering; the web sits in a "messy middle" where humans and agents share the same rails
- Products: conference monetization gateway, the Signals project with OpenAI, Cloudflare OS rationale, and an AI-first restructuring
- Plus why Cloudflare hired 1,000 interns and why curiosity about AI is mandatory there
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