Ehrlich says enterprise leaders increasingly report data disruptions from AI agents
Ofir Ehrlich · Rethinking Legacy Data Infrastructure with Eon Co-Founders Ofir Ehrlich and Gonen Stein · Aug 27, 2026 · at 17:02
Ofir Ehrlich is the co-founder and CEO of Eon, discussing enterprise data security and risks posed by autonomous AI agents.
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“Something that I noted is that like six months ago, no one would even discuss with me, but a few months ago, pretty much every person I meet, every a leader in a company tells me either they Are afraid of that happening to them, or it personally happened to that person who was speaking with me, which is crazy.”
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