The foundational controls to scale trusted AI automation

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By Tarang Puranik, EVP, Global Service Offering Head (SAP) & Head Europe, Infosys

AI agents are moving into production faster than governance frameworks can keep up. In 2025, fewer than four in ten organisations were assessing the security of their AI tools, as per WEF. Now, enterprise AI is expanding at a pace traditional security often cannot match – with the average Fortune 500 company set to deploy over 150,000 AI agents by 2028, up from fewer than 15 in 2025, as per a recent Gartner report.

Because each agent acts on its own while holding key access to sensitive systems, security models built for a small handful of digital assistants often become insufficient at this scale.

When governance gaps surface after a production incident rather than before, agents may already have accessed data outside their authorized scope or taken actions without traceable records.

Three foundational controls close that gap....

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