With the Rise of AI Agents, SOC 2 Should Adapt or Risk Irrelevance

SOC 2 (a compliance framework that verifies how securely organizations handle customer data) is built on assumptions about human users that no longer apply when AI agents use computer systems. The article identifies three major problems: AI agents can be created without explicit approval, they often lack a clearly identified owner, and logs show the human whose credentials they borrowed rather than the agent itself, allowing security risks to hide within passing compliance audits.