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The era of "typing into a box" is over. For years, we viewed artificial intelligence as a digital assistant—a sophisticated autocomplete tool that waited for human input. But according to Martin Kraemer, KnowBe4’s CISO Advisor for Europe and the Middle East, that dynamic has shifted. We have moved from asking AI questions to giving AI jobs. In a recent webinar, Martin explores the transition from AI tools to AI agents.

An account-takeover campaign against Instagram shows why agentic AI inherits every business logic blind spot we already had and then hands it a megaphone. Over the past weekend, a number of Instagram users, including the long-dormant Obama-era White House handle and a U.S. Space Force senior enlisted leader found their accounts hijacked. As reported by TechCrunch, the entry point wasn’t a stolen password, a phishing kit, or a zero-day in Instagram’s code.

In our view, The Gartner Hype Cycle for Agentic AI, published in April 2026, contains a passage that we at 1Password feel should be a wakeup call for any organization building an agent program.

When the AI Agent Security Summit launched in San Francisco last October, agent-based threats had already escalated from a novel consideration to a predominant blocker for enterprise adoption. The security community was laser-focused on recognizing and minimizing the blast radius posed by agentic vulnerabilities, whether that meant indirect prompt injection, MCP poisoning, or hallucinations.

A practitioner's guide to the capability shifts, framework changes, and regulatory developments reshaping how enterprise IT and cybersecurity teams govern, deploy, and defend against autonomous agents.

Originally published in Vancouver Tech Journal, June 2, 2026. Bijan Sanii is CEO and founder at INETCO It may seem reassuring that JPMorganChase, the largest U.S. bank, is among the 12 launch partners involved in Anthropic’s Project Glasswing. But given the stark cybersecurity warning the initiative represents, including a single financial institution is nowhere near enough.