Like any transformative technology, agentic AI brings both considerable benefits and new vulnerabilities. For now, enterprises are seizing upon the potential benefits: a reported 79% of organizations are already deploying AI agents.1 AI budgets due to agentic AI are said to be surging, with fully 88% of executives surveyed by PwC reporting plans to grow those budgets. Even as CEOs, CTOs, CISOs and others march forward, many express trepidation around agentic AI systems in the same breath. After all, agentic AI is not like any other technology. In a sense, onboarding a fleet of AI-powered autonomous agents—whose workflows enable them to participate in real-time decision-making, call tools and perform other agent actions—is more like onboarding a new employee than a new technology. Thus it’s no surprise that the same executives surveyed about their AI adoption cite “cybersecurity concerns” and “lack of trust in AI agents” as chief among their worries.

Full opinion : Agentic AI brings a whole new set of cybersecurity risks to an enterprise.