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Empowering autonomous agents with advanced security governance

We grant them permission to read emails, query databases, and trigger API calls. Agents offer incredible potential for increased productivity and better customer experiences, but they also come with new security concerns.

Empowering autonomous agents with advanced security governance

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We grant them permission to read emails, query databases, and trigger API calls.

While there's still a crucial role for traditional security tools, the threat model has fundamentally changed.

Agents offer incredible potential for increased productivity and better customer experiences, but they also come with new security concerns.

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We grant them permission to read emails, query databases, and trigger API calls. Agents offer incredible potential for increased productivity and better customer experiences, but they also come with new security concerns. In our new State of AI infrastructure report, 79% of tech leaders cite security, governance, or operations as their most significant challenge to scaling inference.

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  • Autonomous workflows have redefined enterprise risk, so it's crucial that we give agents the access they need without compromising security.
  • While there's still a crucial role for traditional security tools, the threat model has fundamentally changed.
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They don't just retrieve information, they take action.

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