By Neil Lawrence @ Trent (Agentic AI Security)

AI is changing cybersecurity in two fundamentally different ways. The first is already familiar: AI makes it faster and easier to find and exploit weaknesses in software. The second is less familiar and potentially more difficult to manage: an AI agent can itself become the source of unexpected and unsafe behavior.

I think of these as Type 1 and Type 2 cybersecurity problems.

The distinction matters because they require different responses. Type 1 calls for stronger versions of the security practices we already know. Type 2 requires us to rethink how authority is delegated to AI systems in the first place.

For business and security leaders, treating both as ordinary software vulnerabilities is a category error.…