The Wild West Of Agentic AI - An Attack Surface CISOs Can't Afford To Ignore
Security Week, Tuesday, July 8th, 2025
As organizations rush to adopt agentic AI, security leaders must confront the growing risk of invisible threats and new attack vectors.
AI agents promise to provide automation of processes, and autonomous detection, triaging and reaction / remediation to external threats and attacks - the ultimate process and security automation tool operating at machine speed. Organizations are rushing to adopt agentic AI; but it brings a new attack surface that is still not widely understood.
('Agentic AI' and 'AI agents' are not strictly synonymous but are both used interchangeably here to imply 'agentic AI'.)