By Cynthia Lee, APAC VP at Delinea
“The recent incident at Meta, where an AI agent exposed sensitive internal data following a routine query, is a timely reminder that AI risk is already operational.
AI agents can execute tasks with speed and precision, but they don’t understand consequences in the way humans do. They lack institutional memory, judgement, and an inherent sense of risk; yet they are increasingly being given access to critical systems.
Recent research from Delinea (‘Uncovering the Hidden Risks of the AI Race’) found that 90% of Australian and 95% of Singaporean organisations are accelerating AI adoption while pressuring security teams to loosen identity controls.
This push to grant AI agents greater access and autonomy without the necessary safeguards creates a dangerous imbalance.
Every AI agent is effectively a new identity that can access critical data, trigger workflows, and take or recommend privileged actions. The challenge is that AI can scale both productivity and mistakes at the same pace.
The solution is not to slow innovation, but to strengthen control. That means treating AI agents with the same rigour as human users: enforcing least privilege, ensuring real-time visibility, and adopting Zero Trust principles.
As AI becomes embedded across enterprise environments, resilience will depend on governance — not speed.”
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