Thousands of AI agents are running inside corporate systems without anyone tracking them, a gap that is becoming a growing security problem for businesses, according to a report from The Information.
AI agents · Enterprise security
Thousands of AI agents are running inside corporate systems with no one tracking them
Companies are deploying software that can act on its own across internal systems. Many of these agents have no clear owner or oversight, which makes them hard for security teams to see, audit or control.
Thousands
of agents operating without formal monitoring or management
Neither
human employee nor conventional software account fits how agents are managed today
3 vendors
Cyera, Okta and SailPoint are racing to address the gap
How an unmanaged agent becomes a risk
A typical path from creation to exposure
01
Created quickly
Set up with little review
→
02
Holds access
Permissions to read data or trigger actions
→
03
Acts across apps
Works across several systems at once
→
04
Outlives its owner
Keeps running after the creator moves on
Result: an attractive target for attackers and a possible source of accidental data exposure.
Where each vendor fits
Cyera
Data security
Helps companies see what data agents can reach.
Okta
Identity and access management
Helps assign agents accountable identities.
SailPoint
Identity governance
Helps limit what each agent is allowed to access.
What businesses want
Deploy agents to speed up work
Let software take actions across internal systems
Adopt quickly as the technology matures
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