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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
Agents at Work
Okta, IBM, Broadcom, and Dataiku each shipped standalone agent governance tools between August 24 and early September. They approach the problem from different infrastructure layers—identity, orchestration, security, observability—but the convergence signals one thing: the market is building guardrails before agents have standardized.
◆ Dana Ellison
