Track 2

Agent Governance and Observability: Mitigating Risk and Eliminating Rogue AI Cost Centres

Scaling use cases means scaling agents. The more agents you run in production, the wider the gap between what your governance frameworks were built for and what they are now being asked to cover. Unmonitored agents create compliance exposure and unaccountable costs, while unsanctioned workloads silently drain budgets.

This track addresses the governance infrastructure required to scale safely, covering identity and access controls, observability frameworks, and audit capabilities that keep agents within defined boundaries and leadership fully informed.
But governance is only half the equation. The same forces driving agentic adoption inside your organisation are arming the adversary outside it. Attackers are now using AI to probe, exploit, and move at machine speed — automating reconnaissance and scaling social engineering beyond what human teams could mount.

 

Defending an expanding agent estate demands a posture that is equally automated, continuous, and intelligence-led. Organisations need to scale with confidence by treating governance and cyber resilience as two sides of the same strategic imperative.