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2026 edition

The State
of Agent
Governance

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Discover four of the biggest gaps in agent governance based on available data — and what you need to solve them.

From the industry
01
0,000

AI agents could be deployed by 2028

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0%

of organizations don't have the governance to support agent growth

03
0%

of employees use ungovernable shadow AI

04
~0%

of companies have near-to-full ownership of their agents

Your team is shipping with AI.
But as agent sprawl continues to take hold in the enterprise, it's creating a perfect storm of increased complexity and diminishing visibility that, if left unchecked, will overwhelm every infrastructure team, data security program, and token budget in its path.

  • Learn about agent sprawl and how it’s driving the agent governance gap
  • Review the data and statistics behind the agent governance conversation
  • Uncover 4 challenges facing AI in production
  • And explore the infrastructure gaps at the heart of the problem

Four agent governance gaps

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Runaway token costs

Like any governance problem, controlling costs isn't just a simple matter of accounting — it requires a thoughtful and operational approach to infrastructure.

Runaway token costs

Agent lifecycle management

Building agents is easy. Knowing what agents are active in production and controlling them all in a way that delivers safe, managed, and reliable business outcomes is not.

Agent lifecycle management

Unmanaged security risk

According to some estimates, the average enterprise environment contains as many as 800 risky AI agents. For most teams, the bottleneck to adoption isn't competency —it's a lack of trust.

Unmanaged security risk

Lack of organizational accountability

If we can't control the outcome of our agents, we need to be diligent about the accountability. But some studies suggest that as few as 15% of organizations have near-to-full agent ownership.

Lack of organizational accountability
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