When an AI system stops generating text and starts taking actions, the failure mode changes entirely. A hallucination stops being a bad reply and becomes an executed money transfer. An injection from an ingested email stops being a formatting glitch and becomes a privilege escalation. The agent's power and visibility become the attack surface. Per the 2026 Saviynt report, only 5% of security leaders are confident they could contain a compromised agent. The industry is building systems that act on the world before building the guardrails that bound those actions.
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