Security, governance, and accountability for autonomous agents. · 55 articles
When you buy an AI agent as a service, you're rarely buying one agent. You're buying a small economy of them that talk to each other and to
The fastest-spreading rule in agent governance is also the simplest to state and the hardest to enforce: every agent in production must map
If you rent an autonomous agent to negotiate contracts, file paperwork, or run ad campaigns and it does something illegal, the regulator doe
Most teams treat prompt injection as a chatbot nuisance, a clever user tricking a model into saying something off-brand. For autonomous age
An agent governance committee is the standing cross-functional body that decides which AI agents your enterprise is allowed to deploy, what
Threat modeling for autonomous systems means systematically mapping how an AI agent can be attacked, abused, or made to fail before you ship
When an autonomous agent acts on a customer's behalf, the audit log becomes the single most important artifact you own. Regulators reviewing
When a single agent does something wrong, you can usually trace it. When five agents hand work to each other, the trail dissolves. Chain of
The question of whether to tell customers they're interacting with an AI agent is mostly settled: in a growing number of jurisdictions, you
When you rent an autonomous agent, you rarely know where your data actually goes. An agent can read a customer record in Frankfurt, call a m
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) gives AI agents a standard way to plug into tools, data, and APIs, and in doing so it inherits a thorny se
When an autonomous agent makes a bad call -- approves a fraudulent refund, deletes a production database, sends a customer the wrong contrac
Traditional secrets management assumes a human (or a slow-moving service) checks out a credential, uses it, and the credential lives for mon
Most companies vet an Agentic AI-as-a-Service (GaaS) vendor with the same questionnaire they use for a CRM or a logging tool. That's a mista
The EU AI Act doesn't mention "agents" once, yet it reshapes how anyone selling autonomous AI agents into Europe has to build, document, and
Most liability waivers in Agentic AI-as-a-Service contracts do far less than buyers assume. They cap the vendor's exposure at a few months o
When an autonomous agent wires money to the wrong vendor, deletes a production database, or promises a customer a refund it shouldn't have,
When an AI agent books a flight, signs up for a SaaS tool, files a refund, or sends a contract on your behalf, the law has no clean category
Agent governance is the set of policies, controls, and accountability structures that decide what an autonomous AI agent is allowed to do, u
When an Agentic AI-as-a-Service (GaaS) vendor's agent screws up, leaks data, takes an unauthorized action, or quietly produces wrong outcom
Agent memory is not a feature you bolt on and forget. The moment an autonomous agent starts remembering customer conversations, internal doc
Buyers of agentic AI-as-a-service are flying blind. SOC 2 tells you a vendor locked their server room, not that their autonomous agent won't
When an AI agent files a refund, edits a database row, or sends an email on a customer's behalf, someone will eventually ask: did the agent
Errors and omissions (E&O) insurance has covered professionals making judgment calls for over a century. Now that an AI agent makes those ca