Rapid adoption of agentic AI runs ahead of security readiness

New research finds just two percent of organizations with 500+ employees report having no plans or interest in agentic AI. Indeed a significant portion of respondents are already using or interfacing with AI agents for both internal and external tasks. But the study, from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), reveals a critical, organization-wide inability to prepare for the identity and security challenges which these autonomous entities introduce. Among the findings are that 41 percent of organizations report having security or reliability concerns with their current IAM providers, which is a major red flag given the autonomous nature of AI agents. 56… [Continue Reading]