Business
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October 27, 2026
6 min to read
AI Agent Safety Needs Boundaries and Trusted, Recoverable Data
For 20 years, the resilience question Veeam answered was simple: Can I recover? In the agentic AI era, the question now is whether you can tell precisely what was affected, who or what touched it, and how to get back to a trusted state. Agents run for hours or days at a time, with the autonomy to reason through logical steps and make decisions without human oversight. They're also adept at finding novel paths to their goals — paths that technically stay inside the boundaries of their harness but land somewhere their human operators never intended. An AI agent can follow every rule you wrote and still end up overwriting the data your business runs on. Read more