The agent security gap: 54% of enterprises have already had an AI agent incident, and most still let agents share credentials

VentureBeat AI · 33 minutes ago

54% of enterprises have experienced AI agent security incidents or near-misses, with 69% allowing credential sharing among agents and only 30% isolating high-risk agents in sandboxes. Enterprises rely primarily on provider-native security controls from OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft rather than purpose-built agent security tools, with satisfaction averaging 4.2 out of 5. Despite high satisfaction with current controls, organizations with credential sharing face incident rates 23 percentage points higher than those with per-agent scoped identities, driving most enterprises to plan tooling changes within the year.