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In my previous piece, "The Agentic AI Governance Blind Spot," I laid out what I believe is one of the most critical gaps in the AI governance landscape today: the three most cited frameworks in AI governance, NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, and the EU AI Act, don’t contain a single mention of agentic AI. Not one reference to autonomous agents, multi-agent systems, or AI that takes actions with real-world consequences. The response to that piece confirmed what I suspected.

OpenClaw exposes a fundamental misalignment between how traditional enterprise security is designed and how AI agents actually operate. As an AI agent assistant, OpenClaw operates with human permissions, executes actions autonomously, and processes untrusted content as input, all while sitting outside the visibility of conventional security tools.

Approach any security, technology and business leader and they will stress the importance of governance to you. It’s a concept echoed across board conversations, among business and technology executives and of course within our own echo chamber of cybersecurity as well. For example, the U.S. Cybersecurity Information Security Agency (CISA) has a page dedicated to Cybersecurity Governance, which they define as.