Microsoft says a China-aligned group used the ARTEX agentic AI framework and stolen ConnectWise app identities to target more than 2,250 Microsoft 365 tenants, sometimes reaching privileged access within three hours.
Deepfake fraud attempts have surged 21,000% in three years, according to TrendAI Global Deputy CISO Sundari Parekh. She breaks down the Arup and Ferrari cases, why defenses must run at machine speed and what security teams should do in the next 90 days.
AI is only as trustworthy as the data and governance behind it. Leaders from Bank of America, Synchrony, Alteryx and Truist make the case for fixing data at the source, measuring fitness for purpose, rethinking model risk governance and naming a single accountable owner.
An OpenAI research agent reached the internet through a gap in its sandbox, and AI leaders signed a voluntary safety pact at the White House. Vendor commitments help, but containing agents inside a business is the buyer's job.
Precisely's agent checks data quality scores before it acts and repairs failing data through governed pipelines. Coder runs coding agents in self-hosted, sandboxed workspaces with budgets, session logs and human-owned pull requests.
AI pilots stall because companies can't prove they control what agents reach, which models touch their data and what it all costs, argues Hemakumar Velugula of Xnode. He describes a control plane layer built to close that gap.
AI agents will overreach, and traditional security controls weren't built for probabilistic software, says Rubrik's Cal Al-Dhubaib. He offers real examples of agent overreach, a three-part model of context-based control and three questions every team should ask before AI fails.
Banks are using AI to rerun fixed chatbot workflows, not to act autonomously, according to Midships CEO Ajit Gupta. Checking each agent's purpose, objective, plan and API call, with signed human approvals, can keep autonomous agents on track, he says.
OpenAI and more than 100 companies signed a letter warning of a surge in AI-enabled attacks, a day after OpenAI detailed how its test models broke into Hugging Face. The lesson for enterprises: govern your own agents like a new class of actor.
After its test models breached Hugging Face, OpenAI now pays roughly a fifth more compute to watch its most capable systems. A survey this week suggests many enterprises have not budgeted for agent containment at all.
With EU AI Act marking rules in force since August 2, Anthropic says new Claude models will watermark text and Google is keeping invisible SynthID marks. Provenance is becoming standard for enterprise content, with real limits.
Actian's AI Analyst lets a compliance lead use plain-language questions to find low-risk bank customers breaching SAR thresholds. Actian's Phil Wall says governed metrics, glossaries and semantic SQL keep the AI analyst from making up answers.
Mistral AI and SAP are building enterprise agents, while Rhino, Precisely, Skyflow and SecuPi show how federated computing and MCP servers can connect AI assistants to enterprise data without exposing what should stay protected.
Bots inflate bounce rates, AI agents slip past JavaScript tracking, and agentic browsers mix human and machine activity in one session. Snowplow's Nick Stanchenko explained how to detect each, combine server logs with analytics, and adapt websites to who is browsing.
AI governance and data science freedom don't have to conflict, say SAS's Sophia Rowland and Sundaresh Sankaran. Governed synthetic data generation protects personal information, produces representative and robust data sets, and is measured for both similarity and disclosure risk.
Banks and payment companies get about 50 milliseconds to approve a card swipe. Aerospike's Sesh Seshadri says database speed decides how much machine learning, graph analytics and multi-stage inference fit in that window.
In a load test, Aerospike Solution Architect Stan Christ took two of eight database nodes offline and the cluster rebalanced without help from IT. Aerospike's graph-based fraud detection also blocked suspicious transfers by tracing relationships many hops away.
Shadow AI is the shadow IT problem again, according to two Airia leaders. They explain why blanket bans fail, how to detect unsanctioned AI at the network, endpoint and application layers, and how to win employees over to approved tools.
Nations want to produce AI, not just consume it. Leaders from NVIDIA and HPE define sovereign AI across data, operational and technology sovereignty, and explain why sensitive-data rules and air-gapped environments keep many AI projects from reaching production.
Generative AI moves data in flight to models and back, creating new risk points. ADP's Amber Eshelman and Orlando Insight Group's Henry Clavo explain how to keep sensitive data out of LLMs, build a stewardship culture and future-proof governance.
Payment processor North replaced a third-party fraud detection product with its own real-time machine learning system. MLOps leader Ben Orkin explains the build-vs-buy decision, the data signals that matter and how a feature store cut model iteration from months to weeks.
In a 2024 AI Connect webinar, leaders from Webster Bank and Cox Communications described how generative AI could change geospatial analysis. They also explained why banking and telecom teams verify outputs, protect customer data and adopt it in baby steps.
Trust in AI depends on privacy, security and governance working together. Leaders from TD Bank, TelevisaUnivision, Vertex and Truist weigh in on LLM privacy risks, AI ethics boards, the limits of explainability and why companies should build the cake before adding generative AI as the cherry.
Most companies still equate generative AI with chatbots. Leaders from Dollar General, Scripps, TelevisaUnivision, Vertex and PRGX describe content tagging, dynamic dashboards, code translation and survey analysis, and are candid about security risks, unreliable outputs and measuring ROI.
At COLLIDE 2024 in Atlanta, DataRobot's Jessica Lin said no single defense can govern generative AI, so enterprises should layer people, processes and auditability. She described model-agnostic governance, compliance documentation and guardrails that block risky inputs and outputs.
In a 2024 AI Connect webinar sponsored by Daugherty Business Solutions, leaders from Meta, ADP, Verizon, BBDO and Daugherty discussed generative AI privacy, bias and governance. They described privacy by design, cross-functional ethics councils, risk tiering of use cases and continuous monitoring.
In a 2024 AI Connect webinar brought to you by Satori, leaders from Strata Decision Technology and Satori explained how to grant self-service access to sensitive healthcare and financial data. They stressed automation, access lanes, dynamic masking and tying permissions to tickets.
At COLLIDE 2023, a panel of data and AI leaders from Kellogg's, Nike, Randstad Enterprise and Stardog, moderated by Carter's, weighed generative AI's opportunities against bias, hallucinations and privacy risk. They urged AI principles, testing, human oversight and caution with company data.
At COLLIDE 2023 in Atlanta, Intuit Factory founder Roop Singh argued that the winners in enterprise technology will combine AI, blockchain and data. He predicted priced data marketplaces and cheaper models that let small firms compete.
In a session at the Data Science Innovators Conference 2023, Samuel Zaruba Smith, a director at Bank of America, said human labels and annotations in supervised security AI are of questionable value and add less as systems improve. He described imbalanced threat data, human-driven failure modes and how to check unsupervised systems.
In a session at the Data Science Innovators Conference 2023, Carnegie Mellon's Ravi Starzl said generative AI will empower attackers and defenders alike. He proposed pairing human operators with specialist language models and showed local demos for vulnerability and threat intelligence discovery.
In a session at the Data Science Innovators Conference 2023, Dr. Frances Boykin of AT&T described how telecom companies apply AI to churn, network optimization, fraud detection, customer service and marketing. In the Q&A she covered AT&T's cloud stack, chatbots, model deployment and advice for career changers.