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AI can seem exciting, especially when it comes to the productivity improvements AI agents provide in the corporate world. But what's rapidly dawning on company and IT leaders is that AI agents are also becoming the ultimate insider threat.
In ZDNET's Special Feature: Cybersecurity in the New AI Era, I outlined how this threat is growing by leaps and bounds. In particular, I showed a statistic that, on average, 82 machine identities (often with high-level network access privileges) are being created for every human identity.
Also: Why enterprise AI agents could become the ultimate insider threat
This enormous management challenge hasn't gone unnoticed by Microsoft. According to Vasu Jakkal, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Security, "Fueled by more than 100 trillion daily signals, Microsoft Security protects over 1.6 million customers, more than one billion identities, and 24 billion Copilot interactions, at the speed and scale of Al."
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