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Your AI agents can reach data no one approved

A credential expired but an AI agent kept using it, causing a mid-sized company's systems to go down for a quarter before the failure was traced to a non-human account that had access to customer records, source code, and HR files without approval. The incident highlights that tools tracking sensitive data access are built for employees and fail to monitor semiautonomous accounts, according to a report from Help Net Security.

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A credential expired. An AI agent kept using it anyway, and a mid-sized company’s systems went down for a quarter’s worth of trouble before anyone traced the failure back to a non-human account no one had been logging. That agent could reach customer records, source code, and HR files the whole time. The tools that track who touches sensitive data were built for employees, and they lose the thread once a semiautonomous account starts opening … More

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