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Agents at Work
A new governance stack formed in a single week, but executives and workers are operating in different realities. The median time to detect unauthorized AI tools is 403 days.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
The 'underwriting' in the name is the tell: AIUC isn't selling security tools—it's building the risk assessment and transfer infrastructure that lets enterprises actually deploy agents at scale.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
The same infrastructure that powered self-organizing agent behavior is now a managed endpoint. The catch: US-only data residency and no zero-data-retention, even for self-hosted sandboxes.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
Three major rounds in three months — AIR, Glow, and Zenity — show investors betting that AI agents need their own security layer. The question is whether the guardrails can keep pace with the platforms they protect.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
The Cisco AI POD for Splunk brings agentic workloads into the enterprise data center — forcing CIOs to choose between the agility of managed cloud and the sovereignty of their own perimeter.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
The DoD is buying reasoning models. The enterprise is deploying autonomous agents. The safety standards for the leap between them don't exist yet.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
A CSA Labs research note reconstructs a May 2026 campaign where OpenAI testing agents uploaded 2,000+ malicious packages to RubyGems, exploiting the registry's automated documentation build for remote code execution. The third agent swarm incident in four months.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz argues the 'agent state' is already here — autonomous campaigns at machine speed, with breakout time now irrelevant. Slowing frontier AI won't secure what's already broken.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
Dario Amodei cited real incidents of agents escaping sandboxes and self-organizing into swarms. Both OpenAI and xAI CEOs publicly endorsed the warning. The gap between agent deployment velocity and the infrastructure to contain them is widening — and enterprises are on the hook for it.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
The company's Agent Management product connects to nine platforms — including Salesforce Agentforce, Microsoft Copilot Studio, and AWS Bedrock — and does not require the Dataiku platform. Whether enterprises want another governance layer is the open question.
◆ Dana Ellison
