Four insights you might have missed from theCUBE’s coverage of KB4-CON
Artificial intelligence agents are turning agent risk management into a frontline security priority.
As digital workers begin touching email, financial systems, collaboration tools and business workflows, enterprises need more than traditional awareness training or endpoint defense. KnowBe4 Inc. is framing the shift around a bigger visibility problem: knowing which agents are operating inside the business, what they can access, which processes they support and whether the right guardrails are in place. That push is forcing security teams to treat AI agents less as tools and more as accountable participants in the workforce, according to Scott Hebner, principal analyst at theCUBE Research.
“We just ran an agentic AI futures index, and one of the questions we asked was, ‘As a leader, do you feel you’re the last to actually manage a human-owning workforce?’ Ninety-two percent said yes,” Hebner said. “At the same time, only 49% had a high degree of trust in the agents that are going to be running the organization, yet only 29% actually had a trust and governance framework in place. [If] there was one word I would describe the state of enterprise AI right now, it is the word trust.”
