‘Everybody’s Become a Builder’: AI Creating New Security Problem

Artificial intelligence is giving employees capabilities that were once largely limited to technical teams, creating a new set of security challenges for companies struggling to track what people — and increasingly, AI agents — can access.

“It’s like everybody’s become a builder,” Jeremy Epling, chief product officer at Vanta, told Benzinga in an interview, describing how AI is allowing employees to build software, automate tasks and navigate systems with far less technical expertise.

The shift is changing how companies approach cybersecurity, governance and compliance as AI tools become embedded across the enterprise.

Vanta, which provides security and compliance software, has seen builder roles among its more than 16,000 customers increase by more than 300% year over year, according to Epling. Those roles include go-to-market engineers and governance, risk and compliance (GRC) engineers, as businesses use AI to automate work and accelerate software development.

But the same technology that expands employees’ capabilities can also create new security gaps.

“You can’t get away with security through obscurity because the agents will find a way to [access] the data or do something unexpected,” Epling said.

That means security teams face a growing challenge not only in determining which AI tools employees are using, but also understanding what those tools can access and what they are doing inside corporate environments.