Perplexity Comet, agentic blabbering, and the shift-left failure

Listen to our latest episode, Can IAM handle AI? → https://ibm.biz/Bdpqkb Does your AI agent talk too much? It’s not just an annoying habit—it’s a security concern. On this episode of Security Intelligence, Sridhar Muppidi, Claire Nuñez and Dave Bales join me to discuss Guardio’s research into “agentic blabbering,” and how attacks can use an agent’s reasoning process against it. In experiments with the agentic Perplexity Comet browser, Guardio researchers were able to design foolproof phishing websites just by listening to agent’s running monologue as it traversed the web. What does i…