# Mastercard's Krishna Mayuram says AI agents need data-in-use protection

> Original title: AI agents carry memory and storage like people, so their data needs guarding while in use

- Source: SiliconANGLE · AI
- Published: 2026-11-11T16:20:46.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/oefkxkr8yu458o3ulypybhrct
- Original: https://siliconangle.com/2026/11/11/cloud-engineering-teams-must-protect-ai-agent-data-use-kubeconna/

## Summary

Krishna Mayuram, senior principal engineer and vice president of cloud engineering at Mastercard, says confidential computing is needed to protect data while AI agents process it. He says Mastercard runs its platforms on Red Hat OpenShift, a Kubernetes platform that Red Hat is extending to support AI agents, and that the same guardrails apply to agents and regular applications.