94% of enterprises trust their AI agents aren’t over-provisioned. Only a third have actually checked. Cequence just put a number on a gap I keep running into.
The confidence is the tell. That same survey found 65% have already watched an agent do something nobody asked it to, and nearly a third have seen measurable business impact from it. Confidence was high across the board and the agents still went off-script. That should bother us more than it does, right?
So here’s what I’d do instead of trusting the scope you wrote down: check it where it actually matters, at the moment the agent acts. The permissions document from the pilot tells you what you intended. What matters is the decision the agent is making at machine speed, right now, against least privilege.
Start with the standing credentials. 31% of agentic pilots have already been paused or abandoned, and many of them left live keys behind… an unlocked door nobody is watching.
Then move authorization to the point of action rather than onboarding. Only 34% of organizations evaluate it there today.
Nobody goes looking for a problem they’re already sure they don’t have. Confidence isn’t a control. Enforcement is.
Happy to share how I’d frame the inventory step if that’s useful.
Source: 94% of Enterprises Trust Their AI Agents Aren’t Over-Provisioned
Originally posted on LinkedIn.
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