Akto, the leader in Agentic AI and MCP Security, has released its inaugural State of Agentic AI Security 2025 Report—the industry’s first comprehensive benchmark of enterprise AI agent adoption and the widening security gap. Based on survey data from hundreds of security leaders at large enterprises across finance, telecom, healthcare, insurance, e-commerce, and technology, the report exposes how rapidly autonomous AI agents are embedding into mission-critical workflows while security controls remain critically underdeveloped.
AI agents have moved from experimental side projects to core operational systems in record time. Nearly 40% of surveyed organizations now run agents at scale, with the majority of the rest in active pilots or experimentation. This velocity has left security teams struggling to keep pace, creating blind spots in workflows, APIs, and data access that traditional security models cannot address.
"The biggest concern for AppSec is the speed. Agentic AI is being adopted far faster than security teams can assess or secure the risks." — Bala Thripura Akasam, Application Security Manager, Tapestry
"AI agents didn't enter the enterprise quietly; they arrived at full force in 2025," said Ankush Jain, CEO and Co-Founder of Akto. "This report shows a clear gap between the adoption of AI and security readiness. Developers have embraced agents as part of daily workflows, but security teams lack the tools and visibility to keep pace. That mismatch is now the biggest enterprise risk of 2026."
"Visibility is the biggest gap today. You can't govern or enforce guardrails if you don't know what your agents are doing. Without observability, every control is guesswork." — Suhel Khan, CISO at Chargebee
Security leaders forecast a seismic shift over the next 12 months: formal AI security ownership, standardized permission boundaries, mandatory action-level logging, continuous red teaming, and enterprise-wide risk classification of agents will become table stakes. By 2026, Agentic AI Security is expected to be treated with the same rigor as Cloud Security and Identity Access Management.
Akto’s State of Agentic AI Security 2025 Report marks a turning point, providing the first quantitative evidence that the era of ungoverned autonomous agents is ending—and the era of mandatory Agentic AI Security has begun.
About Akto
Akto is the leading Agentic AI Security and MCP Security platform, enabling enterprises to safely adopt AI agents and MCPs across cloud, SaaS, and internal environments. Akto provides continuous discovery, guardrails, and automated AI red teaming, giving organizations the governance they need for the new era of Agentic AI.
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