04-11-2026 14:00 via MIT Technology Review

Securing the agentic enterprise with data lineage

A sales representative asks an AI agent for customer pricing, and the agent pulls data from multiple sources: restricted pricing systems, internal communications, and archived quotes. The output looks accurate to the agent, so a second agent uses the data to draft the proposal for the sales rep. No human checks either handoff. When it’s discovered that the proposal includes unapproved, confidential, and sensitive information, no one can trace where the problematic data entered the workflow or
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