The Security Jobs Growing Around Enterprise AI Agents
Two years ago, most companyAI use happened in a chat window. Today, AI assistants read shared mailboxes, search SharePoint, open support tickets and, in some teams, write and run code. Every one of those connections runs on an account with permissions. And someone can talk the assistant into doing something it shouldn’t.
That change is creating security roles that were rare in 2023. Many of them don’t require a machine learning background. They build on existing skills in access control, logging and incident handling, plus the time it takes to learn how language models fail.
What Changed When AI Got Access
For companies, one of the main risks of a chatbot in a browser tab is data leakage: people paste things into it that should stay inside the company.
An agent is different. Connected through APIs or Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, it can act. It sends emails,...
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