If an AI agent is attesting your controls, who’s attesting the agent?
Pro If an AI agent is attesting your controls, who’s attesting the agent? Opinion By Khushboo Kashyap Published 1 October 2026 AI demands security governance to replace compliance-driven security theatre When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. I’ve seen incident response plans that exist on paper but have never been tested, and vendor questionnaires completed once and filed away while the risk quietly changed underneath them.Security teams are under more pressure than ever to prove they can be trusted by customers and boards alike.
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- ▪Opinion By Khushboo Kashyap Published 1 October 2026 AI demands security governance to replace compliance-driven security theatre When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.
- ▪I’ve seen incident response plans that exist on paper but have never been tested, and vendor questionnaires completed once and filed away while the risk quietly changed underneath them.Security teams are under more pressure than ever to pro
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Pro If an AI agent is attesting your controls, who’s attesting the agent? Opinion By Khushboo Kashyap Published 1 October 2026 AI demands security governance to replace compliance-driven security theatre When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Nytt DDoS-rekord (Image credit: Shutterstock / ZinetroN) Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter I’ve watched engineers lose a week before an audit collecting screenshots no one will ever look at again.
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