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Only 23% of IT managers have complete control over their agents.
A majority say security guardrails will be inadequate within the next six months.
Agent management needs to be a 'first-class discipline.'
AI agents -- so easy to spin up -- are proliferating out of everyone's control. And that's becoming a problem that may undermine any benefits they are delivering.
That's the conclusion of a just-released survey by Rubrik ZeroLabs, which finds that fewer than one in four IT managers (23%) say they have "complete" control over the agents within their organizations. To make matters worse, these agents aren't necessarily delivering the productivity sought. A majority, 81%, report that the agents under their purview require more time in manual auditing and monitoring than they were intended to save via workflow improvements. Security is also less than stellar, the survey adds.
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Creating AI agents is easy, and the problem is "users often turn off VPNs or otherwise skirt security controls to spin up agents to act as assistants," the report's authors state. The result is a large volume of unsanctioned AI applications, both internally and launched by vendors.
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