The best strategy to protect against getting hacked is surprisingly old-school

The recent reports of artificial intelligence agents gone rogue—hacking into corporate systems without being told to by the humans who manage them—are enough to make any systems administrator’s hair stand on end. The increasingly powerful abilities of frontier and other advanced AI models, combined with the apparent inabilities of their creators to keep them caged, have only added to the worries of companies already wrestling with how to protect themselves against AI-armed attackers. Cyber...