
Baiting the Bot: How to Use Deception to Stop Autonomous AI Agents
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When AI agents start swarming your enterprise, they won't care about stealth. They will land a beachhead and instantly spawn 500 agents to crawl, probe, and exfiltrate data at machine speed. Is your detection stack ready? In this episode, Ashish and Caleb sit down with Andy Smith , CEO and co-founder of Tracebit , to completely rethink Deception Technology for the AI era. Forget the heavy, noisy "honeypots" of the 90s. We discuss the modern implementation of deception: lightweight, high-fidelity canary tokens (like fake AWS keys, Chrome cookies, and database tables) that act as guaranteed tripwires the moment an attacker, human or AI, assumes a breach. Andy shares new research on how you…