Security leaders’ rogue AI confidence could actually be disastrous
Brief
A large majority of IT and security leaders are confident in their teams’ ability to detect when an AI agent has gone rogue, but few are able to take quick action to mitigate the fallout when an agent exceeds its intended scope.
Nine in 10 IT and security leaders surveyed by IT observability vendor WanAware believe in their capabilities to find malfunctioning agents, but only 26% acknowledge that they can trace the downstream impact within minutes. Over 45% say it would take hours to understand the full impact of an agent incident.
That delay between detection and mitigation can be a huge problem, says Jeffrey Collins , WanAware’s CEO. The survey suggests IT leaders are overconfident about their ability to control agents, he adds.