99% of Indian enterprises have an AI data policy; 84% still saw AI overstep its access

Ask an Indian CIO whether their organisation has a policy governing what data AI tools can touch, and the answer is almost certainly yes. According to Delinea’s 2026 Identity Security Report: The AI Enforcement Gap, published September 30, 99% of Indian organisations have a formal AI data access policy. Ask the same CIO whether an AI tool or agent has accessed sensitive data beyond its intended scope in the past year, and there is an 84% chance the answer is also yes.

That contradiction sits at the center of the report, and it raises an uncomfortable question for technology leaders: if nearly everyone has a policy, and nearly everyone is seeing overreach, what is the policy actually doing?

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