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Your Newest Insider Doesn't Have a Pulse: Managing Risk in the Hybrid Human–AI Workforce

AI agents are insiders with privileges but no pulse. How workforce risk management and governance must expand to the hybrid workforce.

Topic

Awareness / Phishing / FraudCloud Security

When & Where

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Wed, 10/28/2026 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM

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Details

  • Format:

    Management lecture

  • Language:

    German

Session description

Speaker: Anna Collard

Insider risk used to mean people: disgruntled employees, careless clicks, stolen credentials. Meet the new insider — it holds credentials, accesses data and triggers workflows, but has no pulse, no contract and no fear of being fired. AI agents are joining the workforce faster than our risk models can adapt. This 15-minute talk makes the case for extending workforce risk management to a hybrid of humans and machine colleagues.

In 15 minutes:

Why the agent is the new insider: it acts with real privileges inside your systems, but classic insider-risk thinking (motive, deterrence, accountability) doesn't apply to something that can't be sanctioned
What governance models are emerging: agent charters that define what an agent may do, named human o ...

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