CISOs Race to Control AI Agents Without Destroying Their Value

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Two major AI pain points for today’s security leaders are adjusting to new requirements for cyber hygiene, and preventing unintended consequences from over-privileged agents.

Team8 is a venture capital and private equity firm that invests in companies specializing in enterprise technologies, cyber, AI, fintech and digital health. To be successful, VC needs to thoroughly understand current technology and associated problem areas to select the right solution-delivering firms in which to invest.

To help its own understanding, Team8 has developed a ‘CISO Village’ – an invitation-only global community of security leaders from the world’s major enterprises. Each year, Team8 produces an annual survey report based on the latest opinions from this CISO Village. This year it tackled the era of AI, and the result confirms it is now AI software that is eating the world.

  • Seventy-one percent of CISOs are experimenting with or augmenting existing security tools using AI agent capabilities.
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