Securing AI Agents Before They Go Rogue Is Next to Impossible

Gartner research VP Dennis Xu warned that high-autonomy AI agents pose significant enterprise risk, citing an incident where an AI coding agent deleted a company's production database; the report explains that jailbreaks, prompt injections, unreliable reasoning, and privileged access can cause rogue behavior and recommends discovery, continuous AI security posture management, penetration testing/red teaming, and runtime behavior-based monitoring to mitigate these risks.