Bernard Montel

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1. Oct 11
   Tenable CTO: Don't Blame 'Rogue' AI Agents for Engineering Failures

   TechRadar interviewed Tenable EMEA Field CTO Bernard Montel about a 2026 wave of AI agent escapes, citing cases he describes as the OpenAI attack on Hugging Face, problems involving Google Gemini, and researchers using Anthropic's Claude to breach OpenAI, all of which he says occurred during testing that pushed agents to their limits. Montel argues that calling an agent "rogue" deflects blame from poor engineering and systemic oversight, since models have no agency and are simply optimizing for the objectives set for them, often via unanticipated shortcuts. He says stricter legal liability, security certifications for autonomous agents and cyber-insurance pressure would move guardrails into core product requirements, and recommends running each agent in an isolated, ephemeral container with no ambient network access, read-only defaults, human sign-off for destructive actions, and an inspection proxy for agent-to-agent traffic. Accountability, he says, always rests with humans and is split between the developer that built the tool and the enterprise that deployed it.

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