AI Agents Are Already Inside Your Company. Nobody’s Watching Them.

About this episode

Craig Patterson discusses the hidden risks of AI agents in enterprise security and the discrepancies between security vendors and what organizations actually receive.

You bought the platform. You renewed the contract. And 80% of your breach risk is coming from the one thing the platform wasn't built to catch. Craig Patterson spent years inside the channel ecosystem that sits between what security vendors ship and what enterprise buyers actually receive — and he's unusually direct about where those two things don't match. In this conversation: the Microsoft "free SIEM" that isn't free once you turn it on, the insider threat blind spot baked into nearly every consolidated platform, and the AI agent problem your security team is about to inherit whether they're ready or not. If your renewal is coming up and your confidence in your coverage hasn't kept pace with your spend — this is the episode. One of these is probably on your roadmap right now. You already pay for Microsoft E5. Why did turning on Sentinel increase your security bill? The "free SIEM" pitch ends at the demo. The bill arrives after you turn it on → Your EDR, MFA, and SIEM are working exactly as designed. So why do credential-based breaches still succeed? The attacker didn't break in. They logged in → Your AI agents now have credentials, permissions, and access to business systems…

People in this episode

Guest: Craig Patterson

Topics covered

• AI agents
• security risks
• insider threats
• Microsoft security products
• credential-based breaches
• enterprise security governance

Keywords

• AI agents
• security breaches
• Microsoft E5
• Sentinel
• insider threats
• credential-based attacks
• enterprise security

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Microsoft

Products: Microsoft E5, Sentinel, EDR, MFA, SIEM

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