Daily Archives: September 21, 2026

Orchid Security Delivers AI Readiness Controls for AI Agents With Application-Level Shutdowns and Drift Detection

Readiness tagging, always-on observability, and orchestrated shutdowns at the application layer give enterprises a way to expand AI agent programs while keeping authority in check. Orchid Security, the company that unlocks safe AI adoption by solving identity at its core, today introduced identity drift detection and application-level kill switches built for AI agents. Within seconds,…

Avoiding the ERP hangover

I have seen the same pattern repeat across industries, geographies and operating models. Fortune 500 organizations spend millions on ERP transformations to modernize lead-to-cash, finance, people operations, supply chain and other core functions. For several years, those programs create a clear sense of direction. Roadmaps define the work, system integrators add capacity and execution discipline,…

Should AI have the same data access restrictions as employees?

To get the most out of generative and agentic AI systems, enterprises are giving them broad access to business data. This process, however, is not simply a matter of opening the data floodgates and letting AI do its thing; it raises some very important governance questions that CIOs need to address. For instance, if an…

Adopting a skills-first mentality for AI integration

In the wake of rapid AI adoption, organizations are now facing a broadening skills gap as the technology has been integrated faster than employees can develop new skills. The CompTIA Workforce and Learning Trends 2026 study found that, overall, companies cite some of the biggest challenges of AI adoption as insufficient skills using AI (24%),…

Your AI agent may have made the decision, but your company owns the risk

During a recent architecture review with a client, I asked their leadership to trace a single automated transaction backward through their production systems. Three days earlier, an embedded customer support agent had issued an unapproved account credit to a corporate client. Every system monitoring dashboard was glowing green. Internal network logs showed a clean, successful…