AI Agent Adoption Creates Risk as Oversight Struggles to Keep Pace, Splunk Finds
Rapid adoption of agentic AI comes with potential business benefits. But if done incorrectly it also carries risks around AI activity management and security
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Rapid adoption of agentic AI comes with potential business benefits. But if done incorrectly it also carries risks around AI activity management and security
Microsoft says companies should treat AI agents as insiders, and is adding controls that grant access per task and tighten it as an agent’s risk rises.
Extend has announced Extend Verify, a document fraud detection API that helps developers and AI agents assess the integrity of documents before using them to make decisions. Much of the work…
The US Army is looking for AI agents that can slip into an adversary’s network, find their target, copy themselves onto nearby tablets and computers, and then erase themselves before anyone notices…
Microsoft’s Guardian Agents in Project Perception adapt as agent activity, risk, security context and organizational policy change. They help security teams understand why risk changed, investigate…
Microsoft urges organizations to secure AI Agents as insider threats, using dynamic permissions, continuous risk monitoring and automated containment. Microsoft published a detailed blog post…
arXiv:2610.24052v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents are growing more capable and persistent, and are being deployed in ever larger numbers. As more start collaborating, AI control measures must…
arXiv:2610.24311v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents increasingly interact with external environments to complete complex user tasks. These interactions can lead to unexpected behavior and…
arXiv:2610.24379v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent work shows that attackers can implant dormant malicious behaviors that remain hidden at release but emerge after benign fine-tuning. As…
arXiv:2610.24907v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite rapid progress in LLM-based code generation, security vulnerabilities remain widespread, and retrieval-augmented code generation (RACG) can…
arXiv:2610.25032v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An AI agent can reproduce the distribution of its messages and of the receiver's task outcomes while disclosing private information that the task never…
Why the controls on an AI agent have to live outside of it, and what a security operations team can implement and maintain those controls. The new privileged user in your environmentSecurity teams…
For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 19th October, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES CenterPoint Energy, a US utility company serving…
The worst problems don't always come with a warning. Sometimes they arrive through a service everyone trusts, a device someone bought, or a system nobody thought to check. By the time something looks…
Meta wants the right to scrape your website for AI training. If you have a business account, that includes you. At the end of the month, Meta plans to change its commercial terms in a way that…
Discover how to secure AI agents in your cloud environment with Tenable One Cloud Exposure. We explore Microsoft Entra Agent ID and provide essential best practices for robust agentic AI identity…
Agents are rapidly becoming part of how work gets done. They can support a range of activities from writing code and researching products to analyzing revenue, processing expenses, and acting across…
A fake Web3 accelerator has been observed pushing information stealers and backdoors to Windows and macOS systems using malicious npm packages under the pretext of offering free artificial…
AI agent traffic across DataDome’s network grew 41.5% quarter over quarter to nearly 25 billion requests in Q3 2026, according to the company’s AI Traffic Report Q3 2026. Meta’s Muse generated 29.1…
arXiv:2610.22440v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative models now synthesise video that is hard to distinguish from genuine footage, and learned detectors that key on a generator's artefacts…