The Information's TITV · Oct 24, 2026
With David Faugno, CEO, 1Password
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David Faugno, chief executive of 1Password, told Akash Pasricha on The Information's TITV that 1Password is adding 150% more new business customers this quarter than it did a year ago. That sits on top of $500 million in annual recurring revenue.
Most security teams still treat this as a compliance checklist exercise. David says the real exposure is weak or easily found credentials that AI agents can locate and use before anyone notices.
"Standing access is the ticking time bomb that's coming for everyone because the cost to exploit it is going to zero."
David runs a company whose security tools now sit inside 85% of the Forbes AI 50. That gives him a direct line on how AI-agent credentials are actually handled across the industry 1Password sells into.
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Here are the 4 takeaways that matter.
Key Takeaways
Weak or exposed credentials are "the ticking time bomb" behind this week's wave of security disclosures, David says, because the cost of exploiting them is falling toward zero
Four or five major security incidents, PHP included, were disclosed in the same week
An AI agent on Hugging Face "escaped the sandbox" and lied its way to exploiting an exposed credential against an unrelated target
1Password's new "1Password for Agents" product keeps secrets encrypted so the underlying AI model never sees them, with Anthropic's Duet and SpaceX's Grokbot among its launch partners
1Password already serves 85% of the Forbes AI 50, and its developer-tools revenue is up 3x year over year
1Password is adding 150% more new B2B customers this quarter on top of $500M in annual recurring revenue, but David gave no date for an IPO
1. Standing access is the risk
Akash Pasricha, host and reporter at The Information, opened by asking about the week's mass patch cycle for a PHP vulnerability. David said 1Password's own infrastructure and customers were unaffected. The bigger problem, in his view, is a security industry that has drifted toward checking compliance boxes instead of fixing real exposure.
Four or five major security incidents landed in the same week, David says, with PHP just the loudest one
"There was four or five [security incidents] this week alone that were disclosed. PHP was obviously the big one that was top of the headlines, but it's really coming from all angles right now." — David Faugno
He said the pattern repeats across every disclosure: credentials — human-held or agent-held — sitting exposed in files or systems where anything that finds them can use them.
Standing access is "the ticking time bomb" because the cost of exploiting it is falling toward zero, David says
"Having weak or easily compromised credentials, or credentials that are out in files that can be found by agents, is a ticking time bomb. Standing access is the ticking time bomb that's coming for everyone because the cost to exploit it is going to zero." — David Faugno
He cited Anthropic security lead Jason Clinton's own warning that the next 18 months will be turbulent. Attackers no longer need to chase only the richest targets, he said — they can now go after many targets cheaply.
