ServiceNow Study Finds 90% of Organizations Experienced Agentic AI Security Incidents in Past Year

By Public Technologies
  • ServiceNow research found 90% of organizations worldwide experienced an agentic AI security incident in the past year.
  • Only 36% of affected businesses contained those incidents within 24 hours.
  • Just 13% of organizations had defensible agentic AI security programs, despite many security leaders assessing their capabilities as established.
  • Only 19% of organizations could monitor more than 90% of their AI agents in real time.
  • Meanwhile, 66% could not respond automatically to anomalous agent behavior, leaving intervention dependent on humans.


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