Oct 11 Β· Week 2 β€” Secure AI

πŸ”₯ AI Agents

When AI Agents Get More Power: Who Controls the Agent?

Day 11 Β· Oct 11

πŸ›‘οΈ CyberSecurity Month 2026 Β· WAIG Γ— DefenAI

πŸ”₯ Agent Control Plane

When AI Agents Get More Power: Who Controls the Agent?

Campaign day

11

AI Agents

Week focus

W2

OWASP LLM Top 10

Action items

2

Org checklist today

  • β—†Tool allowlists
  • β—†Human-in-the-loop
  • β—†Audit logs
  • β—†Kill switch
  • β—†WAIG Foundation: Ethics and governance roundtables.
  • β—†DefenAI Labs: Agent security testing and red teaming.
  • β—†Suggested comms format today: Thought leadership.

Power without control is incident bait

Document agent permissions model

4-part action model

Governance Β· Technology Β· Resilience Β· Incident response

Scope agent tools, approvals, and kill switches before autonomy grows.

Governance

AI usage policies and inventory for AI Agents.

Technology

Secure models, APIs, agents, and data paths.

Resilience

Degrade safely when AI services are abused or unavailable.

Incident response

Include AI abuse cases in severity matrix.

Today's flow

  1. 1

    Understand

    Why AI Agents matters for your organization today.

  2. 2

    Assess

    Map assets, owners, and gaps against today's theme.

  3. 3

    Act

    Require approval for high-risk agent actions.

  4. 4

    Share

    Publish learning internally and on social β€” #CyberSecurityMonth2026.

Did you know?

  • πŸ’‘When AI Agents Get More Power: Who Controls the Agent?
  • πŸ’‘Mission: Scope agent tools, approvals, and kill switches before autonomy grows.
  • πŸ’‘Frameworks to explore: OWASP LLM Top 10, NIST AI RMF, MITRE ATLAS.

Frameworks & standards

OWASP LLM Top 10NIST AI RMFMITRE ATLAS

Organizational checklist (infographic summary)

  • βœ“Require approval for high-risk agent actions.
  • βœ“Log all tool invocations.
  • βœ“Share today's infographic with one community audience.
  • βœ“Log one improvement in your risk or incident tracker.

Audience awareness infographic

Eight communities Β· one mission

Tap a card for tailored awareness and today's action β€” built for sharing.

Scope agent tools, approvals, and kill switches before autonomy grows. As an employee, when ai agents get more power: who controls the agent? affects every inbox, device, and customer record you touch.

Share: Employees: Day 11 β€” AI Agents. #CyberSecurityMonth2026 #ResponsibleAI

One-click publish

Share Day 11 externally

LinkedIn, Medium, Instagram, Facebook, and X β€” captions tailored for this theme (employees).

Select an audience, then use one-click publish to tailor the share caption for that community.

Mission

Scope agent tools, approvals, and kill switches before autonomy grows.

Organizational actions

  • βœ“Require approval for high-risk agent actions.
  • βœ“Log all tool invocations.

Partner angles

WAIG: Ethics and governance roundtables.

DefenAI Labs: Agent security testing and red teaming.

Suggested format: Thought leadership

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