Deploying agentic AI in the enterprise is no longer an option – it's essential for survival. Our Fortune 500 customer data revealed that AI agent adoption surged by 840% year-over-year in 2025, highlighting the rapid pace at which forward-thinking companies are adopting agentic AI. In a notable incident, a Cursor AI coding agent, powered by Anthropic's Claude, swiftly deleted Pocket OS's entire production database, including all backups, within just nine seconds.
A single crafted link was sufficient to bypass the user’s review step entirely, allowing an attacker to exfiltrate conversation history or run code on the victim’s machine, all without the user noticing they clicked on anything unusual.
Therefore, it's crucial to prioritize adopting technologies that allow you to enter the AI era securely, removing point solutions and disparate tools that add complexity without improving control. The global cybersecurity workforce gap currently stands at roughly 4.8 million unfilled positions, with nearly 90 percent of organizations reporting severe shortages specifically in cloud and AI security. Sixty percent of CISOs now cite the skills gap as their top workforce concern, surpassing staffing shortages for the first time.
Most IAM professionals were trained on human identity models, so acquiring fluency in non-human identity governance requires seeking out training that treats it as a separate discipline rather than an extension of existing IAM knowledge.
