Forcepoint: uncontrolled AI agents are inflating cloud bills

Forcepoint warns that AI agents left without safeguards can consume excessive compute, tokens and API calls, driving up enterprise cloud costs. A single simple request can trigger tens or hundreds of downstream operations, and attackers with stolen credentials can deliberately run up workloads at the company's expense.

• A single agent request can trigger tens or hundreds of downstream operations
• Existing security tools rarely detect the spike in resource consumption
• Attackers with stolen credentials can deliberately run up compute costs
• Forcepoint recommends budgets per API key and team plus agent circuit breakers