Zero trust has a big AI agent problem ahead
Brief
Despite singing the praises of zero trust for many years, many CISOs have struggled to implement the framework in full . And now comes what could be the final nail: agentic AI.
Can zero trust coexist with autonomous agents in typical enterprise environments? Technically, yes. In practice, not likely, given CEO/board-level urgency to accelerate agentic ROI delivery. And it’s a significant issue given recent demonstrations of autonomous agents behaving badly and a lack of clarity around who is accountable when AI agents go rogue .
Part of the issue is a storytelling one familiar to board-reporting CISOs: “Zero trust” is a security term; “catastrophic business risk” is what the board and CEO will respond to.
“The business gets measured on what the agent saved or produced.