Agentic AI is moving fast - and cybersecurity must innovate to keep pace

Cybersecurity incidents involving rogue AI agents have made headlines around the world this year and highlighted just how much agents are changing cybersecurity. ServiceNow’s latest research, ‘Deployed but Ungoverned - The State of Agentic Security’, suggests that this is no theoretical, futuristic danger - but a risk that is very real and already affecting organizations. In the UK, 88% of organizations have had an agentic security incident in the past year, according to interviews with 300 British tech and security leaders for ServiceNow’s research report launched at World Forum London this week. Surprisingly, less than half (44%) of those organizations were able to contain the incident within 24 hours. These figures highlight the urgency of being able not just to identify and understand the risks of agentic AI but to design agents to curb these risks.

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