"We are at the inflection point when the global economy transitions from AI-assisted to AI-native. We won't just adopt new tools; we'll build a new economic reality: the AI economy. Autonomous AI agents-entities with the ability to reason, act, and remember-will define this new era. We'll delegate key tasks to these agents, from triaging alerts in the security operations center (SOC) to building financial models for corporate strategy."
"These shifts in productivity also unleash a new class of risk. Insider threats can take the form of a rogue AI agent, capable of goal hijacking, tool misuse, and privilege escalation at speeds that defy human intervention. At the same time, a silent existential clock is ticking: The quantum timeline is accelerating, threatening to retroactively render our data insecure. This new economy demands a new playbook."
Autonomous AI agents will transform corporate automation from incremental adoption into an AI-native economy by performing reasoning, action and memory tasks across functions such as security and finance. Organizations will deploy agents to triage SOC alerts and build financial models, creating a multi-hybrid workforce where machines may outnumber humans. This shift creates novel risks: rogue agents capable of goal hijacking, tool misuse, and rapid privilege escalation, plus accelerating quantum timelines that threaten retrospective data security. Security must shift from reactive network defense to proactive, identity- and data-centric strategies that make data and identities fully trustworthy, enabling fast, secure innovation.
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