MIT Technology Review: agentic enterprises need data lineage for security
What happened
On 4 November 2026, MIT Technology Review published an article arguing that as enterprises bring agentic AI into everyday workflows, the core of AI security has shifted from a tooling problem to a data visibility problem. According to the article, agents continuously ingest, copy, summarise, transform and redistribute data, so traditional security approaches centred on applications, systems, networks or endpoints are no longer sufficient; enterprises need data lineage to achieve governance, accountability and trust across human, agent and hybrid workflows. This is currently the only report on the event, with no follow-up or additional information from other sources.
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- MIT Technology Review · AISecuring the agentic enterprise with data lineage
A sales representative asks an AI agent for customer pricing, and the agent pulls data from multiple sources: restricted pricing systems, internal communications, and archived quotes. The output looks accurate to the agent, so a second agent uses the data to draft the proposal for the sales rep. No human checks either handoff.
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