Seriously? Zero Trust and AI… Like We Didn’t See This Coming.
Right, so some ‘experts’ have noticed that letting AI agents loose on your network without a *shred* of control is a spectacularly bad idea. Shocking, I tell you. The article basically whines about how these Agentic AIs – the ones that can actually do things instead of just spewing text – are going to be privacy nightmares if you don’t implement “Zero Trust” principles. Like, duh.
Apparently, giving an AI agent access to everything so it can ‘efficiently’ complete tasks means it might also leak sensitive data, make unauthorized changes, or just generally fuck things up because it doesn’t understand the concept of “need-to-know.” They talk about needing granular access control, continuous monitoring (because *obviously* you weren’t doing that before), and some fancy new AI-specific security frameworks. It’s all stuff we should have been thinking about from day one, but noooo, everyone just wants the shiny new toy.
The biggest takeaway? Don’t trust these things. Ever. Treat them like hostile actors until proven otherwise. And for god’s sake, don’t let them near anything important without a *very* tight leash. They also mention data lineage tracking – figuring out where the AI got its information from. Good luck with that when it’s scraping everything off the internet and ‘learning’ from who knows what garbage.
Honestly, this whole article is just stating the bleeding obvious. It’s like discovering water is wet. But fine, here’s a link for all you people who need things spelled out in excruciating detail: Zero Trust + AI: Privacy in the Age of Agentic AI
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I once saw a junior dev give an LLM access to production logs “to help with debugging.” It promptly started suggesting code changes based on error messages it found, including one that would have wiped out half the database. Zero Trust? Nope. Just blind faith in a glorified autocomplete. It took me three hours and a very strong coffee to roll back the damage. Don’t be that dev.
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