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Sep 24, 2025
Jason Clark, Chief Strategy Officer at Cyera, dives into the security challenges posed by agentic AI. He emphasizes that organizations must adapt to this transformative technology to stay competitive. Clark discusses the risks of traditional security controls breaking down and highlights the pressing need for holistic visibility and behavior analytics. He argues for proactive strategies to monitor shadow AI usage and balance productivity with security, predicting that successful adopters will treat AI agents as powerful users and create dedicated AI security teams.
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AI Adoption Is Mandatory And Rapid
- Organizations feel they have no choice but to adopt AI quickly to remain competitive.
- Clark calls AI a tsunami that demands faster security responses than prior tech waves.
Agentic AI Breaks Rule-Based Security
- Agentic AI creates unbounded, autonomous behavior that breaks traditional, rule-based security controls.
- Jason Clark warns this leads to attribution collapse with thousands of agent identities acting on users' behalf.
Identity Explosion And Attribution Risk
- A thousand agents per human will massively expand identities and data generation, complicating attribution and responsibility.
- Clark highlights the risk that agents could be coerced to misuse their granted access.