Agents expose the limitations of trust

Enterprise computing has long depended on chains of trust. Organizations trust their cloud providers, software vendors, identity systems and administrators to operate as designed. That model has worked because humans have remained the ultimate decision-makers.

Agentic artificial intelligence changes that equation. Autonomous systems can retrieve information, make decisions, invoke external tools, collaborate with other agents and execute actions on behalf of the enterprise. As organizations delegate more authority to intelligent systems, they also need a way to determine whether those…