Speaker: Ingo Sauer

Artificial intelligence is transforming enterprises at an unprecedented pace — and upending traditional models of trust along the way. Autonomous AI agents increasingly act independently within enterprise systems: they interact with APIs, access data, and trigger actions, often with excessive access, unclear ownership, and limited oversight. This raises a fundamental new question: how can organizations verify who or what an agent really is, what it is authorized to do — and what it actually does?

The starting point

Traditional governance, security, and risk controls were not designed to manage probabilistic agents that can spawn sub-agents, interface with external tools, and operate across trust boundaries without direct human oversight. As a result ...