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Agent Control Demo: Steer, Block, and Audit AI Agents | Splunk Agent Observability

Most teams keep an agent from regressing by hardcoding checks into its logic, an if-statement here, a regex there. Every new rule then becomes a code change, a review, and a deploy, and the person who spots the problem in production is rarely the person who can ship the fix. Agent Control moves those rules out of the code and into one hub. Steer, block, and validate agent behavior in real time, with rules any team member can update without touching the codebase.

Pre-Push Eval Gate: Block AI Agent Regressions Before They Ship | Splunk Agent Observability

Every engineering team has unit tests. They tell you the code still works. They tell you nothing about what the model started saying. This demo wires a single eval gate script into a git pre-push hook, so Splunk Agent Observability scores every agent's output before the push is allowed through. Luna, an on-premise small language model, runs as a synchronous judge against fixed thresholds. Fail one, and the push is blocked.

Dataset Curation: Turn Production Failures Into Test Datasets | Splunk Agent Observability

Your agent breaks in production. You fix it and move on. But the input that actually broke it is gone and two months later the same failure quietly comes back, because there was never anything to test against. That's not a debugging problem. It's a missing dataset. This demo turns low-scoring production traces into a regression suite you can run against every prompt and model change, without writing a single test case by hand.

CISOs Now Rank Domain and DNS Hijacking Above Ransomware

CSC's CISO Outlook 2026 report surveyed 300 senior technology and cybersecurity executives in the first quarter of 2026, split evenly across North America, Europe and the UK, and Asia-Pacific. When asked which cyber threats they had actually experienced in 2025, not which ones worried them but which ones happened, the answer at the top of the list was domain and DNS hijacking, and subdomain takeover. Ahead of ransomware. Ahead of malware.

Six Days: What UNC7005 Shows About the Gap Between Domain Registration and Attack

On 20 August, Google Threat Intelligence published an analysis of a phishing cluster it tracks as UNC7005. Google assesses with moderate confidence that the cluster is connected to ICE RELIC, the Russian actor formerly tracked as APT29 and also known as Midnight Blizzard.

Banks Found AI Agents Inside Customer Accounts. Nobody Approved What They Did.

Major US banks have found AI agents operating inside customer accounts, signed in with credentials customers handed over themselves. Nothing was breached. The agents authenticated correctly, and some of them still did things nobody asked for. That gap between having access and having authority is the agentic AI security problem every enterprise running agents now owns.

How we use Insights to improve the agent behind Insights

Improving an AI agent means knowing which behaviors to change and where those changes will have the greatest impact. Insights in Datadog Agent Observability improves AI agents by analyzing agent traces to identify recurring cost and reliability problems. It then explains the causes of those problems, assesses their impact, and recommends fixes backed by evidence. At Datadog, we use Insights to improve the agent behind Insights.

PHP2Shell Exposed a Bigger Problem. Is Your IT Team Ready for the Next Threat?

A critical security vulnerability can put an entire business at risk before IT teams have even established where the problem lies. For CIOs, that means needing immediate answers about which systems are exposed, how essential business services could be affected and how quickly their teams can get ahead of the threat. That was the challenge facing organizations on October 21, when two critical PHP vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, emerged.