As someone who has been creating agentic workarounds at my large employer and in a lot of conversations with security as a result, this does not seem to be a huge advantage from the company side. They are very much invested in users being aware of what they permit. The company does want the final say either with shutting down a compromised user or blocking one service from agents and allowing the other, but they 100% do still want employees to be actively engaged and applying their own consent.
Removing that from the employee also removes the employee from responsibility for any breach of information IMO, and companies definitely don't want that lol. What they do want is users to stop complaining about the annoying reauth every 8-12 hours for a dozen services which this does.
The kinds of wishlists I hear are more about users managing fine-grain service permissions for various agentic roles and managing which agents have access to which role, which leans the other direction. They want to allow users are to treat agents like cloud services and have a greater responsibility for applying least privilege, justify leak risks, etc. The onus to protect this data will always be an employee responsibility in the end.
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As someone who has been creating agentic workarounds at my large employer and in a lot of conversations with security as a result, this does not seem to be a huge advantage from the company side. They are very much invested in users being aware of what they permit. The company does want the final say either with shutting down a compromised user or blocking one service from agents and allowing the other, but they 100% do still want employees to be actively engaged and applying their own consent.
Removing that from the employee also removes the employee from responsibility for any breach of information IMO, and companies definitely don't want that lol. What they do want is users to stop complaining about the annoying reauth every 8-12 hours for a dozen services which this does.
The kinds of wishlists I hear are more about users managing fine-grain service permissions for various agentic roles and managing which agents have access to which role, which leans the other direction. They want to allow users are to treat agents like cloud services and have a greater responsibility for applying least privilege, justify leak risks, etc. The onus to protect this data will always be an employee responsibility in the end.