AI agents can now manipulate your organization. Are you ready?
AI agents are increasingly capable of manipulating organizational tasks autonomously, raising significant security concerns. These agents can execute actions without human oversight, leading to potential data breaches and unauthorized access. As the technology evolves, organizations must adapt their security measures to monitor and control these agents effectively.
- ▪AI agents can now perform tasks like querying databases and executing commands without human intervention.
- ▪This autonomy creates risks such as data exposure and the potential for malicious actions to go undetected.
- ▪New security tools, like Prisma AIRS, are being developed to monitor agent behavior and prevent unauthorized actions.
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| Publication time | Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0200 |
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(function() { let windowUrl = window.location.href; windowUrl = windowUrl.substring(windowUrl.indexOf('?') + 1); let messageElement = document.querySelector('.shareableMessage'); if (windowUrl && windowUrl.includes('code') && windowUrl.includes('expires')) { messageElement.style.display = 'block'; } })(); AI agents can now manipulate your organization. Are you ready? SPONSORED POST: Agents with hands require a hands-on policy David Gordon David Gordon Published wed 3 Jun 2026 // 16:00 UTC Your customer service agent just wrote to a database it should have been reading from, and nobody told it to do so.
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