The Insider Has Left the Building: Agentic Governance Beyond Managed Devices
Cequence Security, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
Cloud-hosted AI agents run with user privileges but evade traditional security tools, needing runtime governance.
Cequence CTO Shreyans Mehta argues that AI agents now running in vendor clouds like Anthropic's and OpenAI's execute with full user privileges yet stay invisible to conventional controls.
Legacy tools fail because EDR cannot monitor external clouds, SASE sees only legitimate API calls, and identity controls verify who accesses systems but not what agents do once authorized.
He proposes an AI Gateway at the action layer that monitors real agent requests, defines Agent Personas for behavioral boundaries, and enforces scope and runtime checks. The piece stresses governance must occur at runtime to stop agents repeating harmful actions at machine speed.