CYBERSECURITY
Vasu Jakkal Former Corporate Vice President of Security Microsoft
“ Governance is going to be so important,” says Vasu.“ We need to treat these agents like humans. They’ re going to need identities with the right privileges so they don’ t have access to everything.
“ We also need to ensure agents are protected against attacks like jailbreaks where someone’ s trying to manipulate them and they don’ t become double agents.”
Double agents, according to Vasu, is the notion that an agent may be subjected to malicious instructions. They are also known as prompt injections.“ Threat actors can give AI agents instructions to do things that it’ s not supposed to do,” she explains.“ Agents could be told to ignore the company policies, like not