AI Agents are deleting DBs. Would you use a "Policy-as-Code" Gateway to stop them?
Summary
The article highlights the risk of AI agents performing destructive actions like deleting databases and proposes a Runtime Policy Gateway that uses Policy-as-Code to intercept and block non-compliant agent actions in real time, asking if users would adopt such a security tool.
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