Snowflake's Mayank Upadhyay on Securing AI Agents

Snowflake's Chief Security Officer, Mayank Upadhyay, highlights the growing risk of "shadow AI," where employees bypass corporate governance to deploy AI agents. He argues for embedding security into employee workflows via a new infrastructure layer, the MCP gateway, to govern agent access to enterprise systems, a strategy underscored by Snowflake's acquisition of Natoma.

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