News brief: Agentic AI disrupts security, for better or worse

AI agents are clocking into work. Seventy-nine percent of senior executives say their organizations are already adopting agentic AI, according to a recent survey by PwC, and 75% agree the technology will change the workplace more than the internet did.

If such predictions prove correct, it will soon be the rare enterprise employee who doesn't regularly interact with an AI agent or a suite of agents packaged as a "digital employee." That's likely good news and bad news for CISOs, as agentic AI promises to both support cybersecurity operations and introduce new security risks.

This week's featured news introduces the synthetic staffers joining the SOC and what happens when AI agents go rogue. Plus, a new report suggests rampant use of unauthorized AI in the workplace -- especially among executives.

Meet the synthetic SOC analysts with names, personas and LinkedIn profiles

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