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CHQ DEEP DIVE
ID: CHQ-DD-2026-03-13
AUDIENCE: CISO / SECURITY LEADERSHIP
TOPIC: Enterprise AI Agents and Document Execution Risk
Enterprise documents are beginning to function as execution paths for AI agents operating across organizational data. Three recent incidents — EchoLeak, a Copilot sensitivity label bypass, and CVE-2026-26144 in Excel — demonstrate the same structural condition from different entry points. The existing enterprise security and disclosure frameworks assume documents are passive containers of information. That assumption no longer holds. The execution shift and its governance consequences are examined below.
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