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A Personal Agent Finds Two Months of Work on a Defense Network
· New York time
An Accenture employee's personal Claude agent ran on a Department of Defense network for two months before it was identified and the vulnerability could be patched, sources told WIRED. The account puts an employee's personal AI tool inside a sensitive government system. The episode raises a question for organizations using sensitive networks: how do they identify AI tools that have access to their systems? The reported two-month interval puts the focus on both access and the time needed to find it. AI agents are promoted for their ability to carry out tasks on a user's behalf. On a defense network, however, the important question is not only what an assistant can do, but whether its access has been identified and managed. The Pentagon's surprise colleague managed an extended stay before the relevant vulnerability could be patched. For an industry selling agents as tireless helpers, that is an unusually awkward performance review.
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