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AI agents

AI agents

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AI agents

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AI agents represent a more advanced stage of artificial intelligence where the system is not just responding to individual prompts, but acting with a degree of autonomy to pursue goals, make decisions, and carry out tasks across time. Agents operate with a basic sense of initiative. Instead of waiting for a human to ask a question or trigger an action, an AI agent can monitor conditions, plan a series of steps, and act on its own while checking in or adjusting its behavior based on results. Of course, humans will always retain the ability to set the parameters for independent action taken by AI. An AI agent typically includes three key components. Perception, which allows it to gather information from its environment such as logs, alerts, or system states. Reasoning, which helps it interpret that data, evaluate options, and make decisions. And action, which enables it to interact with systems or tools to carry out its objectives. In cybersecurity, this agentic AI model is especially…

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