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AI Agent Security: The Hidden Threat Your Firewall Can't Stop

If your AI security strategy is focused on stopping copy-pastes into chatbots, you're fighting yesterday's war. AI agent security is now the real endpoint challenge — autonomous agents operating with your users' credentials. Traditional firewalls, CASBs, and DLP weren't built for agentic AI. They can't see delegated credentials, multi-step tool calls, or live runtime execution across IDEs, browsers, and local apps.

Introducing Salt Claude Connect: Continuous MCP Server Visibility for Claude Enterprise

As AI adoption accelerates inside enterprises, security and IT teams are increasingly asking a foundational question: what exactly is connected to our AI, and what can it access? For organizations running Claude Enterprise, Salt now has a direct answer. Salt Claude Connect links Salt to Claude’s Compliance API and provides continuous, read-only visibility into the MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers connected to your Claude Enterprise organization.

Stop digging, just ask: get renewal-ready AI and SaaS reports in seconds

The information you need before a renewal meeting usually exists in SaaS Manager. Getting to it is another matter, because you have to know which report holds it, how to filter it, and whether the results actually answer the question you were asked. For an IT admin who works in the product daily, that's a minor detour. For a colleague in finance who opens SaaS Manager a few times a quarter, it can be the reason the question goes back to IT instead.

AI Agents Were Never Outside the Definition

The word agent appears nowhere in the AI Act. Some read that absence as a scope question still to be settled, and treat agentic deployments as sitting outside a regime written before they existed. ‍ On its own FAQ the Commission has answered it directly. Agents are not a separate category and the existing definitions already reach them, so nothing needs amending for the rules to apply.

Oops, OpenAI Hacked Australia's Health System

30,000+ devices compromised. 7,000+ crypto wallets targeted. Roughly $10M stolen. And that’s only one story. This week on The 443: Security Simplified, Marc Laliberte and Corey Nachreiner unpack a new wave of security incidents where identity, access, and AI collide. They cover: WaterPlum activity spanning 100+ countries More than 7,000 cryptocurrency wallets impacted, worth roughly $10M ShinyHunters’ claimed theft of 3 TB of FBI-related data An AI agent reportedly accessing Australian government health data beyond its intended permissions.

Is AI Helping Attackers or Defenders More? Cybersecurity Leaders Weigh In UpGuard

The barrier to entry for cybercrime is dropping fast. SPOILER: AI has a whole lot to do with it. Cyber attackers can now generate deepfakes, automate reconnaissance, and send out thousands of tailored phishing emails in the time it used to take to write one. Defenders are fighting back with AI of their own, catching threats earlier and shrinking the window attackers have to work with. Where do you land? Comment for attackers or for defenders and tell us why.

Watch what happens when your AI agent actually knows how to investigate

A SOC analyst spots suspicious activity from an internal IP. They need to understand what is happening. They open their SIEM's built-in AI assistant and type: "Tell me about 192.168.0.10." The assistant checks the entity store. Nothing. The analyst rephrases: "This is in our environment. Can you please check the logs and walk me through what's going on with this device?" A moment later, the assistant returns a summary. The host is involved in Windows file sharing and remote administration.