{"id":219222,"date":"2026-05-24T03:10:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T07:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/when-agentic-ai-becomes-your-riskiest-third-party\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T03:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T07:10:07","slug":"when-agentic-ai-becomes-your-riskiest-third-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/when-agentic-ai-becomes-your-riskiest-third-party\/","title":{"rendered":"When Agentic AI Becomes Your Riskiest Third Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/opinions\/when-agentic-ai-becomes-riskiest\/\">When Agentic AI Becomes Your Riskiest Third Party<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/opinions\/when-agentic-ai-becomes-riskiest\/\">https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/opinions\/when-agentic-ai-becomes-riskiest\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-22 03:01:44<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.infosecurity-magazine.com\">www.infosecurity-magazine.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Agentic AI Brings Significant Security Risks Despite Benefits<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Agentic AI, a type of advanced Large Language Model (LLM), evolves beyond mere text generation to autonomously plan and implement tasks, acting as a multistep digital teammate. This introduces both new efficiencies and significant security risks, particularly for businesses that inadequately assess these tools. Unlike traditional third-party risk management (TPRM) practices, which treat AI tools as standard software, agentic AI\u2019s capability to act autonomously, interact with data, and modify settings creates substantial potential vulnerabilities. Businesses need to classify agentic AI according to the level of autonomy and action scope, categorize into tiers of risk\u2014from read-only copilots to fully autonomous operators\u2014and perform enhanced due diligence by asking questions about actions, permissions, and audit trails. Businesses should update policies, contracts, and continuous monitoring systems to reflect these high-privilege risks while reaping the operational benefits offered by agentic AI.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Points:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Levels of Autonomy:<\/strong> Agentic AI spans from read-only monitoring to fully autonomous operators that can modify environments.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Risk Classification:<\/strong> Assign agentic tools to tiers based on their autonomy, data access, and action capability.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Due Diligence:<\/strong> Enhanced scrutiny is vital with focus on actions, permissions, auditing, and vendor practices.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Modified Policies:<\/strong> Update security policies and contracts to consider agentic AI\u2019s risk level and need for higher surveillance.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Continuous Monitoring:<\/strong> Implement continuous, not annual, review of agentic AI activities to promptly identify and rectify potential issues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Agentic AI Becomes Your Riskiest Third Party https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/opinions\/when-agentic-ai-becomes-riskiest\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-22 03:01:44 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets.infosecurity-magazine.com\/webpage\/og\/2e081d8b-702f-41e8-8c2f-99c9dfd2eaa9.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[26,18,17],"class_list":["post-219222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-ai","tag-large-language-model","tag-llm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219225,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219222\/revisions\/219225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}