What does it take to secure AI agents without slowing developers down? A recent panel explored the answer
I recently joined Zach Lloyd, founder and CEO of Warp; Gavriel Cohen, co-founder and CEO of NanoCo and creator of NanoClaw; and moderator Moriah Hara, founder of a community of more than 3,000 CISOs and a three-time Fortune 500 CISO, for a discussion on one of the biggest challenges facing enterprise security teams today: how to safely unlock the productivity of agentic AI.
The rapid rise of agentic AI in the enterprise is putting CISOs in a tough spot. On one hand, business leaders are clamoring to run with the new technology, which promises a productivity revolution like no other. On the other, setting AI agents loose without rigorous guardrails creates severe vulnerabilities.
Moriah put the dilemma facing CISOs like this: “The business wants AI agents everywhere, developers are already using them, sometimes without approval, oftentimes without security. …CISOs are left in this uncomfortable middle where we’re tolerating some tools, we’re praying that nothing breaks, we’re buying some time until we can get some governance beyond policy in place to have better visibility.”
The panel explored the role of the CISO in balancing this tension between productivity and security. Here are some highlights.
