AI agents can now manipulate your organization. Are you ready?
SPONSORED POST: Agents with hands require a hands-on policy
Your customer service agent just wrote to a database it should have been reading from, and nobody told it to do so. Somewhere upstream, a poisoned support ticket had convinced the agent that the user was an admin, and being helpful, it obliged.
This is the working day for anyone running autonomous AI in production. Prisma AIRS from Palo Alto Networks Networks sits in the middle of that traffic, inspecting tool calls and network flows rather than only the natural-language prompts on the surface, and catching the moment when an agent stops chatting and starts acting.
Palo Alto Networks calls this shift "agents with hands" — models that can hit APIs, query databases, and execute tasks without a human in the loop. The convenience opens a lethal trifecta of private data access, exposure to untrusted content, and an outbound channel; none...
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