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Can employees safely use AI agents? AI pentesting agent liabilities, and the news - Rob Allen - ESW #473

Can employees safely use AI agents? AI pentesting agent liabilities, and the news - Rob Allen - ESW #473

Author: Security Weekly Productions August 24, 2026 Duration: 1:39:19
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Interview with Rob Allen from Threatlocker

Safely enabling agentic AI for Businesses

OpenClaw was the wakeup call and businesses wanted to know how to block it. "Easy," Rob Allen said, "it's already blocked if you're using Threatlocker." Now that things have settled down a bit, those same businesses want to allow their employees to experiment with agents. We discuss how they can do it safely.

This segment is sponsored by ThreatLocker. Visit https://securityweekly.com/threatlocker to learn more about them!

Topic Segment

For this week's topic segment, we're discussing AI pentesting agents and how likely they are to get you into big legal trouble. You came home from Black Hat with a new, shiny AI pentesting agent. How can you be sure it isn't hacking the wrong company?

News Segment

Finally, in the enterprise security news,

  1. we check the vibes
  2. New MCP standard and AI text watermarking
  3. what does combatting "cyber-enabled crime" mean?
  4. A closer look at Cl0p
  5. One 3rd party was responsible for all the AI sandbox escapes and hacking
  6. reports
  7. vulnerabilities
  8. Comcast can track your movements with WiFi
  9. A novel solution to the AI datacenter water use concerns

All that and more, on this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly.

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-473


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