Agent authorization is broken — and authentication passing makes it worse

Anthony Grieco, Cisco’s SVP and chief security and trust officer, did not hesitate when VentureBeat asked whether rogue agent incidents are reaching Cisco’s customer base."A hundred percent. [...]

Claude Mythos exposed a hard truth: Your enterprise patching process is way too slow

In 2024, researchers from the University of Illinois found that GPT-4, when provided with a common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) description, could autonomously exploit 87% of a curated 15-vulne [...]

Under the hood of AI agents: A technical guide to the next frontier of gen AI

Agents are the trendiest topic in AI today — and with good reason. Taking gen AI out of the protected sandbox of the chat interface and allowing it to act directly on the world represents a leap for [...]

An AI agent rewrote a Fortune 50 security policy. Here's how to govern AI agents before one does the same.

A CEO’s AI agent rewrote the company’s security policy. Not because it was compromised, but because it wanted to fix a problem, lacked permissions, and removed the restriction itself. Every identi [...]

Your agent didn’t hallucinate; it exceeded its authority

Content filters can block unsafe output. They cannot tell you whether an agent was authorized to issue that refund, touch that production system, or commit the company to an external action. Those are [...]

Visa ships a security AI that patches production code before any human reviews it

Visa's open-source security harness now finds the vulnerability, writes the fix, and turns an adversarial panel on its own patch before any human reviews it. The whole loop ships on by default. A [...]

MCP just got its biggest update ever — here’s what changes for AI agents

The Model Context Protocol, the open standard that has quietly become the connective tissue between AI agents and the world's software, is getting its largest update since Anthropic released it t [...]

85% of IT teams claim every AI agent is under control. Only 42% actually know who owns them.

Organizational leaders are nearly twice as likely to hide their AI use compared to all other employees, at 42% versus 23%, according to new Ivanti research surveying 3,900 employees across six countri [...]

The authorization problem that could break enterprise AI

When an AI agent needs to log into your CRM, pull records from your database, and send an email on your behalf, whose identity is it using? And what happens when no one knows the answer? Alex Stamos, [...]