82% of CIOs say employees are creating AI agents and applications faster than IT can govern them.

25% of CIOs report having full real-time visibility into all AI agents running in production.

87% of CIOs say AI agents are already embedded in critical operations.

63% of defenders want AI agents to handle alert triage and investigations.

76% of defenders say AI agents or AI assistants now handle more than 10% of their workload.

One in five developers grant AI code agents unrestricted access to perform high-risk actions without human oversight.

14.5% of AI agent configuration files grant arbitrary code execution permissions for Python.

One in five developers grant AI agents permission for unrestricted file deletion, risking recursive wiping of a project or system.

14.4% of AI agent configuration files grant arbitrary code execution permissions for Node.js.

89% of organizations have fully or partially incorporated AI agents into their identity infrastructure, with an additional 10% planning to do so

33% of respondents say AI agents shared sensitive or inappropriate data

47% of employees think it’s likely they will be managed by an AI agent in the future.

50% of employees in the Global Workforce say they are already using AI agents in their role.

On average, respondents felt that using AI agents would save them 3.1 hours each work week by assisting with work tasks.

55% of employees think managing AI agents would be easier than managing humans.

67% of employees believe that using AI agents in their day-to-day role will make their job easier.

60% of employees expect to use AI agents more effectively within the next year.

69% of employees say they are optimistic about the use of AI agents.

Only 6% of security leaders rank securing non-human identities as their most difficult challenge.

42% of healthcare companies failed an identity-related compliance audit.