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Securing the

Agentic Enterprise.

AI agents now act under human credentials, at machine speed, without human judgment. This framework gives security leaders a structured way to see the new threat surface — and a practical roadmap to govern it.

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AI WHITEPAPER

Securing the

Agentic Enterprise.

AI agents now act under human credentials, at machine speed, without human judgment. This framework gives security leaders a structured way to see the new threat surface — and a practical roadmap to govern it.

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The readiness gap

29 pts

29 pts

Between the share of security leaders expecting AI-driven attacks and those with a strategy to address them.

Already inside the perimeter

98%

98%

of organizations have unsanctioned AI tools active in their environment right now.

The human risk blind spot

18.5%

18.5%

of employees know their organization's AI use policy — leaving the rest ungoverned.

The attack surface shift

77%

77%

of all cyberattacks now begin with phishing — up 17 points in a single year, driven by AI.

THE CHALLENGE

AI agents don’t bring new risk into your organization. They inherit the risk you already have — and act on it at machine speed.

For thirty years, the human layer has been the most unpredictable variable in enterprise security. That hasn’t changed. What’s changed is that AI agents now occupy the same space — reading inboxes, moving files, executing tasks — under valid human credentials, without the judgment, training, or accountability those credentials imply. Most organizations are governing one edge of that problem. This paper addresses all three.

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THE CHALLENGE

AI agents don’t bring new risk into your organization. They inherit the risk you already have — and act on it at machine speed.

For thirty years, the human layer has been the most unpredictable variable in enterprise security. That hasn’t changed. What’s changed is that AI agents now occupy the same space — reading inboxes, moving files, executing tasks — under valid human credentials, without the judgment, training, or accountability those credentials imply. Most organizations are governing one edge of that problem. This paper addresses all three.

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Six sections.

A complete framework.

WHAT’S INSIDE

01.

The threat has changed shape

02.

Six threat vectors CISOs must

understand

03.

Six principles for AI security

04.

The human at the center

05.

AI security maturity roadmap

06.

The window is now

A four-level maturity model for assessing where your organization stands — and a clear path to agentic readiness.

Six sections.

A complete framework.

Six sections.

A complete framework.

WHAT’S INSIDE

01.

The threat has changed shape

01.

The threat has changed shape

02.

Six threat vectors CISOs must

understand

02.

Six threat vectors CISOs must understand

03.

Six principles for AI security

03.

Six principles for AI security

04.

The human at the center

04.

The human at the center

05.

AI security maturity roadmap

05.

AI security maturity roadmap

06.

The window is now

06.

The window is now

A four-level maturity model for assessing where your organization stands — and a clear path to agentic readiness.

Key takeaways

What you'll learn

Research-backed intelligence every security leader needs before the next board conversation.

The agent inherits the human.

AI agents carry the credentials, access rights, and risk profile of whoever deployed them. A high-risk user creates a high-risk agent — one that keeps running long after the person who launched it has left the organization. Governance built for humans is the right foundation. But it has to extend to agents to work.

HUMAN RISK MANAGEMENT

Email is now an attack vector against AI — not just people.

Prompt injection attacks are confirmed, active, and already occurring in production environments. An attacker embeds invisible instructions in an email — and the AI agent processing that inbox executes them without the human reader ever seeing a thing. 77% of all cyberattacks start in email. Your AI security posture needs to account for both recipients.

EMAIL SECURITY

Most organizations have a policy. Almost none have enforcement.

Only 18.5% of employees know their organization’s AI use policy exists. The gap between having rules and governing behavior is where incidents happen. The paper distinguishes between security awareness training and security behavior management — and makes the case that only one of them works in 2026.

SECURITY AWARENESS & BEHAVIOUR

AI interactions are business records. Most organizations are deleting them.

Courts, regulators, and data subjects can now demand AI prompt chains and LLM conversation logs. GDPR Data Subject Access Requests legally encompass AI interaction data. California law effective January 2026 removes autonomous operation as a legal defense. Most organizations have no retrievable record — because the logs are being auto-deleted by default.

ARCHIVE & COMPLIANCE

Key takeaways

What you'll learn

Research-backed intelligence every security leader needs before the next board conversation.

The agent inherits the human.

AI agents carry the credentials, access rights, and risk profile of whoever deployed them. A high-risk user creates a high-risk agent — one that keeps running long after the person who launched it has left the organization. Governance built for humans is the right foundation. But it has to extend to agents to work.

HUMAN RISK MANAGEMENT

Email is now an attack vector against AI — not just people.

Prompt injection attacks are confirmed, active, and already occurring in production environments. An attacker embeds invisible instructions in an email — and the AI agent processing that inbox executes them without the human reader ever seeing a thing. 77% of all cyberattacks start in email. Your AI security posture needs to account for both recipients.

EMAIL SECURITY

Most organizations have a policy. Almost none have enforcement.

Only 18.5% of employees know their organization’s AI use policy exists. The gap between having rules and governing behavior is where incidents happen. The paper distinguishes between security awareness training and security behavior management — and makes the case that only one of them works in 2026.

SECURITY AWARENESS & BEHAVIOUR

AI interactions are business records. Most organizations are deleting them.

Courts, regulators, and data subjects can now demand AI prompt chains and LLM conversation logs. GDPR Data Subject Access Requests legally encompass AI interaction data. California law effective January 2026 removes autonomous operation as a legal defense. Most organizations have no retrievable record — because the logs are being auto-deleted by default.

ARCHIVE & COMPLIANCE

Audience

Built for the people securing the enterprise.

CISOs & Security Directors

A structured six-principle framework for building your AI security posture — and the board conversation framing to fund it.

IT & Security Operations

Practical guidance on agent identity governance, behavioral anomaly detection, and what “remediate-first” architecture actually means in practice.

Risk & Compliance Leaders

Coverage of GDPR, California’s 2026 AI liability law, eDiscovery obligations, and why defensible data disposition is now a security control — not just a compliance checkbox.