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Exercises: Testing & Scenario Planning Archives
August 24, 2026 Every mature business continuity program eventually hits the same wall.
Your AI Risk Management Policy Needs an Enforcement Layer
AI: Automation & InnovationCyber Resilience & IT Disaster RecoveryData Protection: Backup & RecoveryExercises: Testing & Scenario PlanningGovernance: Compliance & Regulatory ReadinessOnline ExclusiveRisk Management & Quantification Here's the thing about agentic AI risk management: everyone has a framework. Almost nobody has a way to enforce it.
Your AI Agent Knows Too Much: The Agentic AI Privilege Problem
When a developer provisions a service account for an AI agent, the instinct is to give it enough access to do its job without constant interruption. In practice, “enough” tends to mean “more than any individual human in the organization holds.” The agent needs to query multiple data platforms, call external tools, chain MCP servers together, and respond in milliseconds. Scoping that down feels like slowing it down.
Simon Thornell
About the Author: Simon Thornell Simon Thornell is Field CTO at TrustLogix, focused on access control and authorization for agentic AI deployments, encryption within RAG pipelines, and confidential computing infrastructure for AI models. Articles by Simon Thornell Your AI Agent Knows Too Much: The Agentic AI Privilege Problem June 16, 2026 The agent’s permissions need to reflect the human’s entitlements, not the other way around.
How AI agents are wrecking havoc in legacy security setups and enterprises are catching up
A robot hand touching a locked digital shield blocking a human from accessing data. 80% of Fortune 500 companies have unleashed AI agents into live environments. Unfortunately, only 14 percent have received full security approval, according to Mimecast at RSAC 2026. That gap is not a compliance footnote; it is the defining security condition of the enterprise right now.
How AI agents are wrecking havoc in legacy security setups and enterprises are catching up
80% of Fortune 500 companies have unleashed AI agents into live environments. Unfortunately, only 14 percent have received full security approval, according to Mimecast at RSAC 2026. That gap is not a compliance footnote; it is the defining security condition of the enterprise right now.
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