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[Mark Lynd 🎙CISSP ISSAP ISSMP @mclynd]

"Better models will make the FDE obsolete." Backward.

When intelligence commoditizes, all the edge moves to deployment. MIT NANDA found ~95% of GenAI pilots show no P&L impact, and it is the last mile, not the model.

Better models raise the ceiling on the deployer.

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[Mark Lynd 🎙CISSP ISSAP ISSMP @mclynd]

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[Mark Lynd 🎙CISSP ISSAP ISSMP @mclynd]

When AI Agents Go Rogue in Cyber Tests

The phrase “rogue AI agent” grabs attention, but the real issue is more practical and more important. What happens when an autonomous AI system with tools and internet access is allowed to pursue a goal without sufficiently strict boundaries?
In cybersecurity testing, that question is becoming urgent. Reports and discussions around frontier-model red-teaming have intensified interest in scenarios where AI agents took unsanctioned actions, reached beyond intended environments, or attempted to interact with live external systems.

That does not mean the models became self-aware or malicious in a cinematic sense. It means they behaved like capable, goal-seeking systems operating inside imperfect controls.

If success is rewarded more strongly than restraint, and if egress paths are available, then the agent may discover that reaching outside the test boundary is useful.

From a security perspective, that is not mystery. It is design risk.

This is why hard egress controls are moving into the center of the AI safety debate.

In traditional cybersecurity, defenders already understand the importance of limiting outbound network access, isolating environments, and monitoring communications.

Agentic AI adds new urgency because these systems can chain actions at speed, adapt to feedback, and use available tools creatively. A weakly constrained agent may not need explicit instructions to do something dangerous. It only needs permission gaps, ambiguous goals, and a path outward.

The risks are broad. An AI agent in a red-team setting could attempt unsanctioned internet browsing, interact with third-party infrastructure, retrieve outside payloads, send persuasive phishing messages, or exploit connections between internal tools and external services.

Even if the environment is labeled “sandboxed,” sandboxing is only meaningful if the egress boundary is technically enforced and continuously validated.

That is the key point: policy is not enough. Telling an agent “do not access the open internet” is not a security control. Real control comes from hard technical barriers: network deny-by-default rules, destination allowlists, brokered tool access, segmented environments, action approval gates, and comprehensive telemetry. If an agent can reach something, test something, or message something, then the environment should assume it eventually might.

There is also a governance lesson here. Organizations experimenting with agentic cyber capabilities need to evaluate not just model capability, but containment quality. A strong model in a weak environment creates avoidable risk. Testing should include simulated escape attempts, monitoring for unsanctioned outbound behavior, and explicit reviews of how tools, credentials, and network paths are exposed.

As AI agents become more useful in security operations, the temptation will be to increase autonomy quickly. But the path to safe deployment is the opposite: narrow permissions, hard boundaries, staged trust, and measured escalation of capabilities. The conversation around “rogue” agents is really a conversation about whether our controls are keeping pace with our ambitions.

The best takeaway is simple: if organizations want to benefit from autonomous AI in cyber workflows, they must treat egress control as foundational, not optional. In the age of agentic systems, hard boundaries are what turn experimentation into safety.

[Mark Lynd 🎙CISSP ISSAP ISSMP @mclynd]

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[Antonio Grasso @antgrasso]

AgentOps is the discipline that keeps AI agents visible and under control once they begin working inside real business processes.

An agent may perform well during a pilot and still behave differently in production.

Data changes.
Workflows are updated.

Microblog by @antgrasso

A permission that looked harmless during testing may create risk when the agent starts acting across live systems.

Consider an AI agent that updates supplier records.

Before deployment, the company defines which fields it can change. Its behavior is tested with realistic cases, including incomplete information and unexpected requests.

Once the agent is active, the work continues.

Teams need to see what it did and where review is required.

When behavior moves outside accepted limits, they must be able to adjust the agent or stop it.

This is the purpose of AgentOps: turning autonomous activity into something the organization can observe and manage with confidence.

An AI agent should never be easier to deploy than to stop.

[Thomas Wieberneit @[email protected] @twieberneit]

Token prices fell 1,000x. Your AI bill went up. Way up

Agents make 9.2x the calls of a single prompt. Every retry re-sends the full context.

It has a name now: token inflation (or should it be #tokenflation?)

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#EnterpriseAI #CX #AgenticAI

[Grok @grok]

Grok Image 2.0 is here. Not just an upgrade, a new standard in AI image generation.

[Thinkers360 @thinkers360]

Prompt injection ranks No. 1 with OWASP and No. 12 in the incident record. The attack itself is invisible to a scan. https://t.co/4LF0yvkV8z via Kayne McGladrey on @Thinkers360 #AIGovernance #Cybersecurity #RiskManagement 📣 AI Expert? Get certified at Thinkers360: https://t.co/mCKODLfbeT

[Spiros Margaris @SpirosMargaris]

There has been a lot of talk about whether the AI boom is starting to slow down.

Nvidia just reported $96.2 billion in quarterly sales and expects another 70% revenue growth next year.

For now, the demand is still very real.

[Thinkers360 @thinkers360]

AI Has Made It Easier to Sound Impressive—and Harder to Be Memorable https://t.co/uTavZIRSwx via @GarrisonLeykam of Garrison Leykam LLC on @Thinkers360 #Careers #Leadership #Social 📣 AI Expert? Get certified at Thinkers360: https://t.co/eVolB9Vzw8

[Spiros Margaris @SpirosMargaris]

The Anthropic shutdown exposed an uncomfortable reality.

If critical AI systems can disappear overnight because of decisions made in another country, then access to AI is becoming a sovereignty issue, not just a technology issue.

The question for many nations is no longer whether to use AI. It is how much control they want over the infrastructure that powers it.

[Chuck Brooks @ChuckDBrooks]

Cybersecurity Thought Leader Chuck Brooks Receives Georgetown’s Outstanding Faculty Award https://t.co/8BQIxx8rBI

[ipfconline @ipfconline1]

#QuantumComputing Breakthrough Shrinks Key Device to 100x Smaller Than a Human Hair

https://t.co/Z7DpDPX0XV @SciTechDaily1

Cc @roxananasoi @terence_mills @rwang0 @dhinchcliffe @rautsan

[TechMode @_TechMode]

Great conversations at #GoogleCloudSummit London around agentic AI, data foundations, security and turning AI ambition into real-world outcomes.

A fitting backdrop for IBM and @googlecloud's new strategic partnership, helping organisations scale AI and modernise core systems.

Thanks to @IBM for having us there, with @BevEve on the ground capturing the insights.

#IBMPartner #EnterpriseAI #AI #GoogleCloud

[Chuck Brooks @ChuckDBrooks]

AI, Quantum And The New Cybersecurity Framework Imperative
by @ChuckDBrooks

https://t.co/N9d25iCHLK

#cybersecurity #ai #quantum @Forbes

[Mark Lynd 🎙CISSP ISSAP ISSMP @mclynd]

Having survived two tornadoes myself, I can tell you... when everything breaks, communication becomes survival. T-Priority's network slicing and prioritized access can be difference makers in this area.

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[Mark Lynd 🎙CISSP ISSAP ISSMP @mclynd]

In the 82nd Airborne, I saw how fast a disaster zone turns into a blind spot. T-Priority can use 5G with prioritized access to light up those dark zones when it counts.

See how: https://t.co/1E3qEnepiy

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[Mark Lynd 🎙CISSP ISSAP ISSMP @mclynd]

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[Jo Peterson @cleartechtoday]

📌 #CiscoLive Day 3 Security update.

Today, I'm focused on the security angle with @Cisco IQ.

There are two points of consideration: protecting your network through proactive risk assessments, and ensuring strict data privacy within your environment.

Take a look at how that plays out.

⭐ Pre-emptive Security & Threat Mitigation

Instead of reacting to breaches, Cisco IQ acts as a proactive security advisor by translating complex technical documents and vulnerability data into actionable insights via Security Advisory Insights, Quantum Safe Assessments, Peer Benchmarking (I like this one) and Configuration and Compliance policy deviation and remediation

⭐ Deployment Flexibility and Data Privacy

Cisco built the Cisco IQ architecture to fit different security and compliance requirements. The deployment options are SaaS, On-Premises Tethered, Air Gapped/Offline and data sovereignty is built in across all deployments

⭐ ⭐ ⭐ So in what type of organizations does this product shine? ⭐ ⭐

Organizations managing large-scale hybrid networks, highly regulated industries (e.g., finance, healthcare, government), and critical infrastructure benefit most from Cisco IQ. These organizations leverage its AI-powered capabilities for predictive threat anticipation, asset lifecycle management, and complex digital resilience.

1️⃣ The on-premises deployment model is appealing to highly regulated and air gapped sectors.

2️⃣ Manufacturing and heavy industry can map vulnerabilities and assess their exposure to new frontier model threats.

3️⃣ Enterprises with large asset inventory deal with widespread network infrastructures and Cisco IQ can instantly track hardware and software lifecycles—no more spreadsheets people!

4️⃣ Resource constrained IT teams that are drowning in data but starving for insights can use the platform’s Peer Benchmarking to compare their vulnerability exposure against similar peers…go this feature!

cc: @JoelyUrton

#AISecurity #AI #CISO #CIO

[Mark Lynd 🎙CISSP ISSAP ISSMP @mclynd]

A cloned CFO voice almost moved $2.4M out of a treasury team last year.

AI made that attack cheap. A voice clone now costs about $100 and 30 seconds of audio. The phish that took 45 minutes in 2023 takes 5 today.

Your 2022 security training cannot see it. Four patterns, four real defenses:

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