Analysts recently confirmed what identity security teams have quietly feared: AI agents are being deployed faster than enterprises can govern them. In their inaugural Market Guide for Guardian Agents, Gartner states that βenterprise adoption of AI agents is accelerating, outpacing maturity of governance policy controls.β Enterprise leaders can request access to the Gartner Market Guide for
Every security team has a version of the same story. The quarter ends with hundreds of vulnerabilities closed. The dashboards are bursting with green. Then someone in a leadership meeting asks: "So, are we actually safer now?"
Crickets.
The room goes quiet because an honest answer requires context β which is something that patch counts and CVSS scores were never designed to provide. Exposure