AI agents are inside the enterprise – are your security foundations ready for them?
THE SO WHAT
If AI agents can trigger actions, they’re now part of your attack surface—hence the push for hardware-level security foundations. CISOs should treat agent runtimes like privileged automation accounts: lock down keys, enforce least privilege, and assume prompt paths are exploitable.
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