# Securing the agentic enterprise with data lineage

- Source: MIT Technology Review · AI
- Published: 2026-11-04T13:00:00.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/be9kr49dndbsf0cbwerd38t53
- Original: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/11/04/1147596/securing-the-agentic-enterprise-with-data-lineage/

## Summary

The article argues that enterprise AI agents need data lineage, meaning visibility into how data is ingested, copied, summarized, and reused across systems and agents. It gives an example in which a sales agent's pricing data reached a proposal with restricted and confidential information, and no one could trace where it entered the workflow. The piece says AI security is a data visibility problem, so application, system, network, and endpoint controls are not enough. It is sponsored content from Insights, MIT Technology Review's custom content arm.