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Don't trust AI agents, warns the CEO of cybersecurity powerhouse
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Publication date unknown · First observed: 8 Oct 2026
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Why it matters
Jay Chaudhry's warning highlights that most organizations lack governance, monitoring, and audit controls for autonomous AI agents, leaving corporate networks exposed to unplanned agent actions and data leakage.
Zscaler founder and CEO Jay Chaudhry, in a Yahoo Finance interview, warns that companies place too much trust in AI agents let loose on corporate networks, where frontier AI models can scan and find vulnerabilities in websites, firewalls, VPNs, and load balancers to break in. A cited Deloitte survey notes about 80% of organizations lack mature governance for agentic AI, including boundaries, real-time monitoring, and audit trails.