Analyst Report

AI Agents Are Insufficient to Secure Agentic AI Today​

Govern AI agents from discovery to runtime control ​

AI agents are the fastest-growing identity population in the enterprise, and the least governed. They act on their own, touch sensitive systems, and often hold more access than their task requires. Read the Gartner® report AI Agents Are Insufficient to Secure Agentic AI to learn where cybersecurity leaders should focus first. ​

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From the report ​

“To secure agentic AI today, cybersecurity leaders must prioritize deterministic runtime controls, identity-based cybersecurity, and governance.” ​

Source: Gartner, AI Agents Are Insufficient to Secure Agentic AI, Craig Porter, Zachary Smith, 17 July 2026. ​

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What the report covers ​

  1. Inventory AI and Agents ​
  2. Plan for (Embracing) Shadow AI ​
  3. Start With an Identity-Based Approach to AI Agents ​
  4. Deploy Simple Guardrails on High-Risk Flows ​
  5. Pragmatic Ways to Secure AI Agents ​

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Govern AI agents like every other identity ​

Omada Agent Governance brings AI agents into the same governance processes you use for people and applications. Discover your agents and the systems they can reach, assign an accountable owner to each one, and certify their access in the campaigns you already run. With EmpowerID now part of Omada, we’re extending this to runtime control, so you can decide in real time what each agent is permitted to do. ​


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