Amazon's New AI Security Agent Steals RSAC 2026 Spotlight — Cybersecurity Stocks Tailspin
The final day of RSA Conference 2026 belonged to Amazon. The company unveiled what it’s calling the AWS Security Agent — an autonomous AI system capable of performing on-demand penetration testing, generating patches, validating fixes in a sandbox, and preparing deployments without requiring human intervention at any step. The market’s reaction was immediate and severe. CrowdStrike fell over 7% in a single trading session. Other pure-play cybersecurity firms followed. By market close on March 27, the combined toll across the sector had reached billions in erased market cap. ...