AI agents are the largest unmanaged attack surface

Organizations deployed autonomous agents faster than they built the controls to govern them. Each agent that can read data, call tools, and take actions is effectively a privileged user — often without the logging, scoping, or review a human would get.

That gap is the defining security story of 2026: the attack surface grew on the inside, quietly.

What teams are scrambling to add

• Scoped, revocable credentials per agent.
• Full audit trails of agent actions.
• Guardrails on which tools an agent may invoke.

Signal: if you can't list every agent in your org and what it can touch, you have an ungoverned surface.