Agent identity is solved. Containment isn't | VentureBeat
Visa's president of technology, Rajat Taneja, walked the VB Transform 2026 audience through aiming Anthropic's Mythos at Visa's own payment network. The model stitched minor weaknesses into working exploit chains, and Visa open-sourced the harness that governed the hunt.
That's what it looks like when an enterprise has the engineering depth to act on what it finds. Most don't get there. Just over half, or 53%, of enterprises have already had an agentic security incident or near-miss. Sixty-five percent enforce agent permissions at runtime, yet only 18% isolate their highest-risk agents, and just 8% pair enforcement with isolation.
Leaning on provider-native controls to do the heavy lifting of agentic security just exacerbates that gap. The July wave of VentureBeat Pulse Research found that 92% of enterprises naming a primary security layer default to their hyperscalers and AI platform providers.
Six waves of researchhave been completed since January,...
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