Enterprises are not prepared for a world of malicious AI agents

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• Identity management is broken when it comes to AI agents. 
• AI agents expand the threat surface of organizations. 
• Part of the solution will be AI agents automating security.

As enterprises begin implementing artificial intelligence agents, senior executives are on alert about the technology's risks but also unprepared, according to Nikesh Arora, chief executive of cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks. 

"There is beginning to be a realization that as we start to deploy AI, we're going to need security," said Arora to a media briefing in which I participated.

"And I think the most amount of consternation is around the agent part," he said, "because customers are concerned that if they don't have visibility to the agents, if they don't understand what credentials agents have, it's going ...