New Akeyless Research Reveals Growing AI Agent Identity Security Gap
MRA Research has partnered with Akeyless on the launch of its new 2026 State of AI Agent Identity Security report, a major thought leadership study exploring how organizations are managing the rapidly evolving risks associated with AI agents and machine identities.
Based on a survey of 400 IT and security leaders across the US and UK, the report highlights a growing disconnect between the pace of AI adoption and the maturity of identity security controls designed to govern autonomous agents.
Among the report’s headline findings:
– Two-thirds of organizations suspect AI agents may already have accessed data beyond their intended scope
– Most organizations cannot detect a compromised AI agent for several hours
– Enterprises are already spending more than $1 million annually responding to AI agent identity and credential-related issues
The findings reinforce a wider market reality: AI agents are increasingly being embedded into core enterprise systems, often before governance, visibility and security frameworks are fully established.
The full report can be viewed here: https://www.akeyless.io/ebooks/state-of-ai-agent-identity-security-report/
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