Autonomous actors need new AI agent governance
### Agentic AI forces a reckoning on governance as autonomous actors enter production Enterprise cyber resilience company Rubrik Inc., which this week [unveiled Rubrik Agent Identity](https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/04/rubrik-unveils-agent-identity-govern-ai-agents-one-tool-call-time/) to govern agent access one tool call at a time, argues that agents demand an entirely new control layer. ### A new class of AI agent governance for autonomous actors An agent can pull data from Salesforce, then paste sensitive fields into an outbound email — each action authorized, the combination toxic. To avoid flooding humans with endless approvals, [Rubrik built SAGE](https://www.rubrik.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/26/rubrik-rolls-out-industrys-first-semantic-ai-governance-engine), a small language model trained to act as a cybersecurity professional that vets actions at machine speed. “The entire bull case on agents is that they’re doing 10 times as much work as a human in the same amount of time,” Rishi said. “If I’m sitting there and I’m hitting approve, approve, approve, we feel like it’s more security theater than anything else.” Rubrik’s internal deployment emits trillions of tokens, so raw telemetry needs an intelligence layer to surface risk and runaway spend. In one case, the company found that a small fraction of activity drove a disproportionate share of cost. Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of [Black Hat USA](https://www.thecube.net/events/informa-tech/black-hat-usa-2026): Dev Rishi, Rubrik | Black Hat 2026 - YouTube Tap to unmute [Dev Rishi, Rubrik | Black Hat 2026](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsXh5Xi1mlA) [SiliconANGLE theCUBE](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu3Ri8DI1RQLdVtU12uIp1Q)  SiliconANGLE theCUBE79.7K subscribers [Watch on](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsXh5Xi1m