📌 Louis Columbus on why enterprise AI governance is falling behind the agents it is supposed to control. Every board loves a committee. A committee means somebody is watching. There is a charter. There are meetings. There is probably a very nice deck explaining responsible AI. Meanwhile, the AI agents are already running. That was the tension running through my conversation with Louis Columbus, senior cybersecurity contributor at VentureBeat. We talked about agentic identity, least privilege, shadow AI and what actually happens when AI governance moves from a policy discussion to a production environment. And Louis kept coming back to a pretty uncomfortable point: Governance that cannot enforce anything isn’t really governance. As Louis put it, “Governance really exists on paper, but it doesn’t enforce at runtime.” That distinction is about to matter a lot. Listen to the full episode: buzzsprout.com/2248577/episo… Stay in the Loop. Subscribe for new episodes: linkedin.com/newsletters/734… Watch ClearTech Research on YouTube: youtube.com/@ClearTechResear… cc: ClearTech Research #AISecurity #CIO #CISO

Sep 16, 2026 · 11:33 AM UTC

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A committee is a quarterly control. Agents act in milliseconds. Governance that cannot revoke a credential at runtime is documentation, not control.
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A practical bridge for SMBs: turn each policy rule into an allowed action, a denied action and a test result. “Agents cannot export customer records” should come with a failed export attempt and a log entry someone can inspect.
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