At the World Economic Forum cyber meeting in Geneva recently, I had an interesting conversation with Vinh Nguyen, who is a strategic security advisor and Senior Fellow for AI at CFR. I wanted to know from him how he sees runtime governance in agentic AI working out practically and what approaches actually work.
If AI agents are becoming organizational actors, then governance needs to move beyond principles and into operational structure.
In Camille Stewart Gloster’s upcoming book The Insider You Build, she explains that governance is not defined by policies or structures, but by whether it can actually influence system behavior at runtime. In an agentic environment, governance only exists where it can shape, constrain, and intervene in decisions as they happen.
False positives can disrupt inbound email security as much as missed threats by slowing business workflows and eroding trust in security controls.
Cyber insurance claims surged by 40% over the past eighteen months, while ransomware payments have dropped by 44%, according to a new report from Cowbell Cyber. The three most common incident types were data breaches, cybercrime (including phishing and business email compromise), and extortion attacks (including ransomware).
With over 10 years of experience in implementing AI, KnowBe4 has a ton of agents on its platform which customers can use to significantly lower risk. They help to secure the digital workforce (humans + AI agents). But five of them, all based and driven by risk scoring metrics, have become my favorites:
Lead Analysts: Jeewan Singh Jalal, Dilsha Dines, Karthikeyan Dharmaraj
In just a couple years, deepfakes have gone from cartoonishly silly and largely academic exercises to sophisticated audio and video creations with the potential to trick just about anyone into believing they’re the real thing.
When geopolitical tensions rise, whether due to conflicts like the current one involving Iran or other global flashpoints, many organizations focus on physical security, supply chains, or political implications. But there is another battlefield that lights up almost immediately: the human mind.
