Treat Your AI Agents Like Humans or You Are Creating Risk

AI agents are about to act as humans inside your organization. Curtis Koenig, Head of Application Security at Gen, explains why treating them with the same identity and data controls is the single most important step to get ahead of AI risk.

"We're going to give these agents the capability to do things as though they were humans. If we are not treating them like we treat our other human users in our organizations, that's where we're creating risk."

Curtis makes the AI agent risk concrete. These agents will have access to secrets, sensitive data, infrastructure, and systems. The same things your human developers touch every day.

The controls to manage that access already exist. Curtis says the risk is not the technology itself. The risk is choosing not to apply the same identity and data governance to AI that organizations already use for people.

Full episode: https://youtu.be/aLv52Bs8dQI