AI agent security: isolation lags enforcement | VentureBeat
Across 116 enterprises, agents are in production and so are the incidents: A majority have already had a confirmed agent security event or a near-miss. Two-thirds of enterprises enforce scoped permissions at runtime. Barely one in five isolates its highest-risk agents, making containment the weakest layer in the stack precisely as autonomy scales. Credential sharing persists across nearly two-thirds of agent fleets, and 53% have already had a confirmed agent security event or near-miss, contributing to a growing lack of confidence in agentic security. Security stacks remain overwhelmingly borrowed from model providers and hyperscalers, and confidence has slipped. Today, as many enterprises now believe AI-armed attackers are ahead of their defenses as believe the reverse.
This wave of VentureBeat Pulse Researchexamines how enterprises secure their AI agents: what tooling they run, how they manage agent identity and isolation, what has already gone wrong, how much they spend, and whether...
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