Anthropic expects AI-powered virtual employees to begin roaming corporate networks in the next year, the company’s top security leader told Axios in an interview this week. Managing those AI identities will require companies to reassess their cybersecurity strategies or risk exposing their networks to major security breaches. Virtual employees could be the next AI innovation hotbed, Jason Clinton, the company’s chief information security officer, told Axios. Agents typically focus on a specific, programmable task. In security, that’s meant having autonomous agents respond to phishing alerts and other threat indicators. Virtual employees would take that automation a step further: These AI identities would have their own “memories,” their own roles in the company and even their own corporate accounts and passwords. They would have a level of autonomy that far exceeds what agents have today. “In that world, there are so many problems that we haven’t solved yet from a security perspective that we need to solve,” Clinton said. Those problems include how to secure the AI employee’s user accounts, what network access it should be given and who is responsible for managing its actions, Clinton added. Anthropic believes it has two responsibilities to help navigate AI-related security challenges.

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