Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

There’s never a good time to lose a production database, but losing one to your own AI coding agent on a Friday afternoon has to rank near the bottom of the list. That’s the backdrop to the PocketOS incident, and it’s the clearest case yet for why AI agent security and intent-based access control belong at the top of every cloud security roadmap this year.

As more organizations move past experimentation and start planning real AI agent deployments, the same set of concerns keeps surfacing in our conversations with security teams. Whether the worry is a shadow agent that shows up uninvited or a sanctioned agent going rogue, the questions tend to cluster around control: These are the right questions to be asking, and they share a common answer that’s more concrete than most people expect. AI agents are only as dangerous as the privileges they can reach.

As autonomous and semi-autonomous AI systems take on more responsibility within the enterprise, they shift from being “features” of software to becoming true internal actors. They make decisions, take actions, call tools, orchestrate workflows, and influence other AI agents. With this evolution, we must confront an uncomfortable truth: the metrics and response patterns we built for deterministic software no longer work.

Bail bond scams are getting smarter with AI. Here's how to spot them before they cost you thousands. A call saying someone you love has been arrested and needs money ASAP can feel so real that you act before you think. Learn how bail bond scams work and what to watch for to help protect you and your family from falling for the scheme. Getting a call about bail isn’t something most people prepare for, and that’s exactly what scammers count on.

Behavior Intelligence is a security operations model that detects risk by analyzing behavior, automates investigation and response using AI, and measures whether security outcomes are improving over time. It focuses on how users, systems, and AI agents operate rather than relying only on predefined rules or knowns indicators of compromise. This shift matters because modern attacks rarely look malicious at first. They look normal.