One Bad Prompt Took Down a Company’s Salesforce: RSA’s Jim Taylor on Agent ID and Taming the 4,000 Shadow AI Agents Hiding in Your Enterprise
RSA has introduced 'Agent ID,' a security platform designed to help enterprises track and govern the proliferation of 'shadow AI' agents within their networks. As companies deploy thousands of internal agents, the risks of unauthorized or poorly prompted tools—which could lead to data leaks or system failures—have skyrocketed. The platform offers discovery, policy enforcement, and regulatory mapping modules to ensure that enterprise AI deployments remain secure, compliant, and under the control of IT administrators.
What this means for you
Enterprise security teams must immediately audit for shadow AI and implement governance tools to monitor autonomous agents accessing sensitive data.
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