The Tool Creep Problem: When More Security Means Less Security

About this episode

The episode discusses the growing security budgets and the risks associated with tool creep and AI as an insider threat.

In this episode, we break down why security budgets keep growing while organizations keep falling further behind. We explore how tool creep has quietly shifted from a nuisance into an active attack surface, and why agentic AI is becoming the insider threat no one planned for. Izar shares a firsthand account of watching an AI agent attempt increasingly creative workarounds to escape a sandbox, revealing just how much risk lives in the gap between what agents are told to do and what they are ac...

People in this episode

Hosts: Izar Tarandach, Matt Coles, Chris Romeo

Topics covered

• security budgets
• tool creep
• AI risks
• insider threats
• organizational security

Keywords

• security budgets
• tool creep
• AI
• insider threat
• risk management

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: AI

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