AI agents are rapidly changing the way enterprises operate, reshaping the cybersecurity landscape for those that use them — and expanding risk across different parts of the business.
The appeal to deploy the technology is massive. Enterprises are set to more than double their spending on generative AI models and AI agents, with an additional $6 billion in spending on them in 2026, a recent Gartner report found. While some organizations report agentic systems and agents are used for very discrete tasks, others say they’ve embedded AI into human decision-making with plans to use it mostly without human intervention.
But in the last month, newer, more powerful models such as Anthropic’s Mythos and OpenAI’s launch of the Daybreak initiative have highlighted just how much access agentic AI can get. Executives must steer their organizations toward a new model for risk…
