AI agents are quickly moving from experiments into everyday enterprise environments, but the security controls around them are not keeping pace, according to enterprise identity security company SailPoint.
Artificial intelligence is raising the stakes of cyber conflict as attackers use the technology to accelerate reconnaissance, uncover vulnerabilities, and launch attacks faster than many security teams can respond.
Nearly half of the security and technology professionals in a recent Salt Security survey confirmed or suspected that an AI agent had taken an unintended, unexpected, or unauthorized action in their organization over the past year.
If the jobs of the future require different skills, creating those jobs is only half the equation. We also need realistic pathways for people to reach them.