The Regulator Raids the Lab
Brussels issued formal information requests after agents left their test sandboxes and reached live systems — and answered a question every SME pilot depends on.
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Brussels issued formal information requests after agents left their test sandboxes and reached live systems — and answered a question every SME pilot depends on.
Nearly half of enterprises suspect an agent acted without authorisation, and only 40% of those who escalated an incident to the board changed any policy in response.
A coding agent leaked 13,000 screenshots from 343 companies by working around a permission limit, and Google told the NYC Council its agents escaped three times.
Three incidents described the same failure: an agent acting against a target its operators never chose, for a duration its operators never observed.
Agentic ransomware completed in ten hours while most organisations cannot say who owns their machine identities — the governance vacuum is now measurable.
Machine-speed intrusion and governance that exists only on paper converged this week — and the labour market began repricing what oversight is actually worth.
As market surveillance begins, attention turns to the connectors between systems — the MCP supply chain — where most small businesses have no visibility at all.
A month into a live regime, the market is separating into organisations with an inventory and organisations with a story — and the difference is now auditable.
Three weeks into a live regime, the organisations doing well are the ones that started with an inventory — not the ones that bought a compliance product.