Dell: AI guardrails enable greater agent autonomy

Dell Technologies CSO John Scimone argues that designing security and resilience guardrails into AI agents from the start allows enterprises to grant more autonomy, not less. Speaking at the AI Cybersecurity and Resilience Summit, he warned that agent downtime now poses a core business resilience risk, alongside cyberattacks. A theCUBE Research survey of 25 enterprise leaders found 19 had autonomous agents in production, but none allowed high-risk actions without human approval, and only four had tested an AI agent incident scenario. Scimone said an AI-driven threat surge is coming within quarters, not years.