Third-Party Risk Set to Reshape AI Security

Lytical Ventures' Taylor Margot on Autonomous Agents and New AI Defenses Michael Novinson (MichaelNovinson) • August 12, 2025

Third-party risk in artificial intelligence is poised to expand as organizations adopt autonomous agents with unprecedented access to systems, data and decision-making. Taylor, partner at Lytical Ventures, compared the shift to discovering a new land mass in technology that requires entirely new defenses. Traditional human-centric controls may fail, making permissioning, monitoring and data control critical.

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Small and midsize businesses will likely depend on external vendors for agent development, increasing exposure to opaque, interconnected risk. Margot warned that without visibility into vendor systems, organizations can't detect data misuse, model poisoning or unauthorized decision-making. The risks compound as agents act without human intervention, potentially altering budgets, campaigns or hiring processes on their own.

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