{
  "id": 9594092,
  "title": "AI agents creating a new insider security risk: theCUBE’s Oktane keynote analysis",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/24/ai-agents-creating-a-new-insider-security-risk-thecubes-oktane",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-24T17:25:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "SiliconANGLE",
    "slug": "siliconangle",
    "url": "https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/24/ai-agents-security-thecubes-keynote-analysis-oktane/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "AI agents are creating new insider security risks for companies as they gain access to applications and systems. Krista Case, principal analyst at theCUBE Research, highlighted the challenges in visibility and permission controls for these agents. Okta's approach to managing AI agents includes finding them, determining their capabilities, observing their actions, and responding to any harm caused. However, revoking an AI agent's authority does not necessarily undo the changes it has made or the work it has triggered in other systems. Case emphasized the need for clear human ownership of AI agents and tailored permissions to their specific tasks. The scale of this problem was evident when a financial asset management company discovered about 13,000 agents in its environment, but only 1,000 were considered valid. Okta's Blueprint Alliance aims to establish a shared architecture for access, delegation, and monitoring across platforms to address this issue. However, interoperability between platforms may present challenges, as conflicting insights could arise on how to handle an agent's actions.",
  "summary": "AI agent security now depends on knowing what agents can do after they gain access. Agents can act across applications, pass work to other agents and make changes faster than security teams can review them. That makes visibility and permission limits necessary, but it also raises a harder question: How does a company recover from […] The post AI agents creating a new insider security risk:…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}