[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-bitdefenders-new-vpn-protects-ai-agents-not-you":10,"sections":40},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":30,"tags":31,"sources":35,"feedback":39,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":39,"total_tokens":39},7269,"bitdefenders-new-vpn-protects-ai-agents-not-you","Bitdefender's New VPN Protects AI Agents, Not You","Bitdefender is launching a VPN designed to secure the AI agents acting on your behalf, not your own device or browsing habits.","Bitdefender wants to put its VPN between your AI agent and the internet, not between you and it.\n\nCiprian Istrate, who runs consumer operations at Bitdefender, said on Tuesday that security can no longer stop at protecting the person behind the screen - it has to extend to the agent acting on their behalf. The Romanian security company is launching a VPN designed for AI agents themselves, not for the humans who deploy them. That is a different pitch than the VPN market has made for the past decade, where the customer was always a person hiding their own traffic.\n\nAI agents increasingly log into accounts, make purchases, and browse the web unsupervised, which means they carry their own attack surface separate from the device that spawned them. Treating an agent as a security subject rather than just a tool is a meaningful shift, even if Bitdefender is early to frame it that way.\n\nWhether that framing survives contact with actual products remains to be seen - security vendors have a long history of repackaging existing tech behind a fresh label the moment a new buzzword takes off.","[\"bitdefender\",\"ai-agents\",\"vpn\",\"security\"]","2026-09-22T21:45:40.000Z","2026-09-22T22:54:45.854Z","2026-09-22T22:54:50.358Z","published",null,[24],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"Verify and attribute the 'beta' status and 'this week' timing claims — the source snippet only says Bitdefender 'was launching a VPN,' not that it's in beta testing, so these specifics currently look unsupported\u002Finvented; either cite where they come from or cut them.","resolved","security",[32,33,34,30],"bitdefender","ai-agents","vpn",[36],{"name":37,"url":38},"The Next Web","https:\u002F\u002Fthenextweb.com\u002Fnews\u002Fbitdefender-vpn-for-ai-agents-beta",0,{"sections":41},[42,47,50,55,60,65,70,75,80,85,90,95,100,105],{"name":43,"slug":44,"count":45,"latest_published_at":46},"AI","ai",4196,"2026-09-23T00:17:17.000Z",{"name":48,"slug":30,"count":49,"latest_published_at":18},"Security",704,{"name":51,"slug":52,"count":53,"latest_published_at":54},"Policy","policy",368,"2026-09-22T23:30:19.000Z",{"name":56,"slug":57,"count":58,"latest_published_at":59},"Deals","deals",202,"2026-09-22T23:00:04.000Z",{"name":61,"slug":62,"count":63,"latest_published_at":64},"Hardware","hardware",168,"2026-09-22T23:56:03.000Z",{"name":66,"slug":67,"count":68,"latest_published_at":69},"Science","science",131,"2026-09-22T16:26:30.000Z",{"name":71,"slug":72,"count":73,"latest_published_at":74},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",110,"2026-09-22T20:00:00.000Z",{"name":76,"slug":77,"count":78,"latest_published_at":79},"Software","software",80,"2026-09-22T23:32:52.000Z",{"name":81,"slug":82,"count":83,"latest_published_at":84},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",79,"2026-09-22T22:21:13.000Z",{"name":86,"slug":87,"count":88,"latest_published_at":89},"Startups","startups",65,"2026-09-22T22:06:48.000Z",{"name":91,"slug":92,"count":93,"latest_published_at":94},"Gaming","gaming",45,"2026-09-22T15:35:06.000Z",{"name":96,"slug":97,"count":98,"latest_published_at":99},"General","general",43,"2026-09-21T23:48:56.000Z",{"name":101,"slug":102,"count":103,"latest_published_at":104},"Reviews","reviews",27,"2026-09-22T13:00:00.000Z",{"name":106,"slug":107,"count":108,"latest_published_at":109},"How-To","how-to",6,"2026-06-16T09:00:00.000Z"]