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Agents at Work
Guardian Agents and Dynamic Agent Risk mark the first time a major vendor has built continuous containment for non-deterministic AI. But the measurement layer still does not exist.
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Agents at Work
Cisco Webex is the first major collaboration platform to ship an agentic AI framework for meetings. Claude Managed Agents join as team members, and MCP integration brings Webex context into OpenAI dots. The question is whether enterprises will actually deploy them.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
Three enterprise vendors shipped agent identity products in 23 days. But 92% of CISOs still can't see what their agents are actually doing.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
Discovery, posture assessment, runtime monitoring, and risk flagging are no longer speculative bets. They are forming as a distinct funded category, backed by concentrated capital and a looming enterprise failure rate.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
The governance layer is forming faster than the measurement layer can validate it. ServiceNow, Workday, DXC, NeuBird, and Proofpoint-Varonis all shipped governance products in a 13-day window—but the question of whether these controls actually work remains unanswered.
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Agents at Work
The first major payments processor to publicly frame the agent authorization question is arguing for more friction, not less – and the virtual card may be its near-term answer.
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Agents at Work
The 52% premium and 53x FCF multiple signal that governing what agents can access is now a growth category, not a perimeter afterthought.
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Agents at Work
The enterprise workflow giant shifts from governed autonomy to cryptographic identity verification for AI agents. 100% of banks use AI; 24% have governance to match.
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Agents at Work
Enterprises with full visibility into agentic AI operating costs are 5x more likely to report established ROI. The problem isn't just that costs are seller-made — it's that the enterprises that track them are the only ones winning.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
By integrating automated opportunity identification with unattended execution, the enterprise workflow incumbent attempts to move agentic AI from experimentation to production-grade governance.
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