Change governance is a security control
The most disruptive IT failure of 2024 was not a breach. It was a routine update that moved faster than the governance around it, and it offers a clear lesson for how organizations should treat change.
Analysis and perspectives on enterprise cybersecurity, intelligent systems, technological governance, and the evolving responsibilities of organizations in an increasingly connected world.
The most disruptive IT failure of 2024 was not a breach. It was a routine update that moved faster than the governance around it, and it offers a clear lesson for how organizations should treat change.
When an AI agent acts on someone's behalf, every action carries an implicit claim of authority. Making that claim explicit, constrained, and auditable is becoming one of the central problems in enterprise security.
Most organizations run access reviews. Far fewer can show that those reviews change anything. A few design choices make the difference between a compliance exercise and a genuine control.