Monthly Zen: December Edition
From Agentic AI security insights to big product innovations, Zenity is making waves. Catch up on our latest talks, upcoming webinars, and key thought leadership from December!
Secure AI Skills Built in Microsoft Fabric.
Microsoft recently announced AI skills, a new resource type that business users can build and integrate from Microsoft Fabric to make data more accessible across the enterprise. Zenity is proud to offer the first AISPM capabilities to secure these AI skills within our unified dashboard. Read Ziv Hagbis latest.
Zenity in the Wild
We had a busy month in December, writing, speaking, and presenting in a variety of formats. Check out where we’ve been, with commentary from our security experts.
Solutions Review: 66 Cybersecurity Predictions from Industry Experts for 2025
Featuring an expert voice from Zenity CEO Ben Kliger, where he outlines how the rise of Agentic AI will require a rethinking of security strategy
DarkReading: Generative AI Security Tools Go Open Source
Rob Lemos writes that businesses deploying LLMs and other GenAI systems have a growing collection of open source tools for testing AI security, including Powerpwn, as Zenity CTO Michael Bargury explains
DarkReading: Does Desktop AI Come With a Side of Risk?
Rob Lemos, with help from Zenity CEO Ben Kliger also details how agentic capabilities are coming to a desktop near you — with Microsoft 365 Copilot, Google Gemini with Project Jarvis, and Apple Intelligence all arriving (or having arrived), how can security keep up? We also wrote Agentic AI in the browser on our blog.
Security Boulevard: The Biggest Risks of AI Apps, Agents and Copilots – and How to Combat Them
Zenity CEO Ben Kliger explores the evolution of copilots, the risks they bring and provides insight on how to start putting the right guardrails in place.
Ekoparty 2024. And for our Spanish speaking readers, our VP of Research, Inbar Raz, gave an impresionante presentation at Ekoparty 2024, showing how bots that anyone can build on Copilot Studio (which is included in any M365 Copilot or Power Platform license) can easily be used to exfiltrate sensitive enterprise data circumventing existing controls like DLP and how security leaders can protect them.
What We’re Running, Reading & Watching
We recently unveiled the Zenity Security Assessment Hub, a collection of 10 free, open-source tools that security and red team practitioners can use to understand risks stemming from AI Agents and low-code environments.
On-Demand Webinar: If you’re curious about how to secure AI Agents from buildtime to runtime, don’t miss the webinar led by Zenity Product Manager Gilad Shahar. Check it out today!
Joe McKendric wrote a fantastic piece on ZDNet highlighting some key stats around AI Agent adoption in the enterprise, including that 42% of respondents indicated their enterprises need access to eight or more data sources to deploy AI agents successfully.
Deloitte published a sprawling piece on AI Agents and how they are already providing a huge boon for productivity, but that autonomous agents may be slower to come along due to governance concerns.
We hope you’ve enjoyed the last edition of 2024. We are looking forward to keeping up with the momentum in 2025 to put all the conversations around securing Agentic AI in one aggregated easy-to-read place. Happy holidays!