Palo Alto Networks security-intel boss calls AI agents 2026’s biggest insider threat www.theregister.com/2026/01/0…
AI agents represent the new insider threat to companies in 2026, according to Palo Alto Networks Chief Security Intel Officer Wendi Whitmore, and this poses several challenges to executives tasked with securing the expected surge in autonomous agents.
“The CISO and security teams find themselves under a lot of pressure to deploy new technology as quickly as possible, and that creates this massive amount of pressure - and massive workload - that the teams are under to quickly go through procurement processes, security checks, and understand if the new AI applications are secure enough for the use cases that these organizations have,” Whitmore told The Register.
“And that’s created this concept of the AI agent itself becoming the new insider threat,” she added.
