The AI Security Crisis No One Is Preparing For
HelpNet Security, Wednesday, August 20th, 2025
In this Help Net Security interview, Jacob Ideskog, CTO of Curity, discusses the risks AI agents pose to organizations. As these agents become embedded in enterprise systems, the potential for misuse, data leakage, and unauthorized access grows.
You've warned about the industry 'sleepwalking' into a security crisis with AI agents. What do you mean by that, and what signs do you see that we're already on that path?
AI agents and other non-human identities are proliferating rapidly. In some organizations they already outnumber human users by more than 80 to 1. Many are deployed with broad, persistent access to systems and data, but without the same security controls, governance, or monitoring applied to human accounts. This creates a perfect opportunity for abuse, whether that's through prompt injection, compromised credentials, or the exploitation of insecure code that they generate.