This issue highlights the challenge of aligning an LLM’s “latent ontology” with a company’s “structural ontology” to avoid agent errors, and warns that unmanaged shadow AI magnifies existing governance and security gaps. It also covers Zscaler’s new zero-trust platform for AI agents, Salesforce’s acquisition of m3ter for usage-based billing, and Ivanti’s patch for Sentry vulnerabilities.

Zscaler unveiled a zero trust platform to secure autonomous AI agents’ data access, communications and device activity. It adds an AI Broker for agent-to-agent and data calls, endpoint AI threat detection, an AI Access Graph for mapping identities and data flows, and expanded AI Protect controls. This aims to give each AI agent its own identity, permissions and real-time monitoring.