Software that works on an employee’s behalf is now turning up in incident reports. At 95% of the companies in a Trellix survey of 600 CISOs, an AI agent or other autonomous system was linked to an insider incident in the past 12 months. The agent logs in, reaches sensitive systems, and acts for a person using that person’s permissions.
Most companies count AI agents as insiders, and CISOs worry about their own liability
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