AI Agents Are Racing Ahead - Security And Governance Are Lagging
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, November 19th, 2025
AI agents are racing ahead-and the guardrails are jogging to catch up. In this Techstrong.ai Leadership Insights conversation, Jitterbit CTO and SVP of engineering Manoj Chaudhary unpacks the security and governance gaps opening up as organizations sprint to put agents into production.
Architectures teams deployed six months ago already feel dated as new agent protocols flood in: Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP), Google's agent-to-agent and payment protocols, IBM's Agent Communication Protocol and more, all in under a year. Everyone wants an 'AI agent' on the roadmap, but in the hype, security and governance are getting left behind.
Chaudhary draws a sharp line between innovation and risk. Autonomous agents without guardrails aren't just prone to bias or hallucinations-they're exposed to prompt injection, over-permissioned tools and data access that no one is systematically checking. Chaudhary argues that 'human in the loop' shouldn't be optional; validating agent output is going to become a profession in its own right.