Securing the Agentic Enterprise Requires Data Lineage

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The MIT Technology Review Insights report argues that enterprises using agentic AI need data lineage to track how data moves across human, agentic, and hybrid workflows. It says security teams must manage data as it is ingested, copied, transformed, reused, and redistributed, because traditional approaches focused solely on applications, systems, networks, or endpoints are no longer sufficient.

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An MIT Technology Review Insights report argues that enterprises using agentic AI need data lineage to track how data moves through workflows involving people, AI agents, or both. It says security teams should follow data as it is ingested, copied, transformed, reused, and redistributed, because controls focused only on applications, systems, networks, or endpoints are no longer sufficient.