AI agents are inside the enterprise – are your security foundations ready for them?

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The recent release of Anthropic Mythos is a wake-up call for the tech industry – and the fact that Anthropic themselves chose not to release it publicly speaks volumes about the level of risk we have now reached. AI agents have evolved from chatbots with upgraded capabilities to effective employees with database access, API keys, and system privileges.

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However, the security protecting them is built on the same strategy that failed to stop ChatGPT jailbreaks in 2023. And this time, there’s no human to review an agent’s output, just an autonomous agent carrying out commands in a silo.

AI agents are reshaping enterprise systems and the way work gets done. Securing them requires an equally fundamental shift in thinking. Ultimately, now that agents act independently, resilience must be rooted in foundational controls, including hardware-level and lower-stack security, to be ready when the...

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