Companies Harden AI Agents Against Insider Threats

At Davos this week, executives including Pearson CTO Dave Treat, Cloudflare president Michelle Zatlyn and Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach warned that AI agents pose growing insider-threat risks to organizations. Panelists recommended applying zero-trust and least-privilege controls, deploying separate guard agents and boosting telemetry for threat-hunting to detect prompt injection and automated attacks. These measures aim to balance efficiency gains with tighter access controls and continuous monitoring.