Bring out your dead: How agentic AI for cybersecurity helps you rid your cloud of forgotten, risky assets

Tenable's Hexa AI is presented as an agentic cloud-security tool that automatically finds and flags forgotten or unused cloud resources—dangling IPs, idle load balancers, stopped instances, stale snapshots, unattached volumes, and empty Kubernetes control planes—so teams can remediate them, reduce attack surface, and recover cloud spend; a demo uncovered 1,658 orphaned resources with roughly $2.4k–$4k/month in wasted costs and the article emphasizes saving queries as continuous policies to prevent future “zombie” assets.