Trend Micro’s Eva Chen Says AI Agents Can Be Secured With Cybersecurity Safeguards

Summary

Trend Micro CEO Eva Chen argues that AI agents can be made safer by governing their actions with cybersecurity measures such as authentication, permission controls, isolation, monitoring, testing, and stop gates.

Key points

• Eva Chen argues that cybersecurity should focus on controlling how AI agents act, rather than trying to control how they think.
• She identifies authentication, authorization, permission controls, and isolation as safeguards for AI agents.
• She also advocates safety testing, monitoring, policy controls, governance, and auditability.
• Chen says agents should have stop gates to halt them when they cross a boundary.
• The article is an opinion piece supporting industry efforts to make AI agents secure, governed, and controllable.

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