Known, a company building accountability infrastructure for autonomous AI, announced that Edna Conway has joined its Advisory Council. Conway previously served as Vice President and Chief Security & Risk Officer for Cloud Infrastructure at Microsoft and as Chief Security Officer for the Global Value Chain at Cisco, and currently works as Chief Operating and Risk Officer at TPO Group and CEO of EMC Advisors. Interim CEO Allie Kline said that as AI agents operate across organizational and platform boundaries, establishing who they represent and who is accountable is becoming critical, and that Known will advance DNSid as an open foundation for accountability.
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