Report by Exabeam
The Agentic Insider: From Monitoring to Understanding
Key Findings
56% of security leaders use behavioral monitoring and baselining to monitor AI agents.
27% of security leaders identify limited behavioral context and correlation as the biggest limitation of their current AI agent monitoring approach.
93% of security and finance leaders say the two functions are aligned on cybersecurity risk tolerance.
48% of security leaders rank AI agents operating with excessive, compromised, or unintended access as the greatest threat to their organization, while 28% rank external threat actors, 12% rank compromised insiders, and 12% rank malicious insiders.
29% of security leaders continue to rely on manual review to monitor AI agents.
60% of security leaders use dedicated AI security or governance tooling to monitor AI agents.
56% of security leaders extend existing SIEM, detection, or monitoring platforms to monitor AI agents.
81% of security leaders say their CFO understands the cybersecurity risks they are working to mitigate.
55% of security leaders delay or scale back a security initiative because they cannot frame the risk in financial terms their CFO will accept.