News · curated 17 Sep 2026
Exabeam Research: Security Leaders Identify AI Agent Access as a Top Insider Risk Priority
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Exabeam's survey signals that enterprise security teams increasingly view autonomous AI agents with legitimate but excessive access as a leading insider-risk category, underscoring monitoring and behavioral-context gaps defenders must close.
Exabeam released commissioned survey research ("The Agentic Insider: From Monitoring to Understanding") of 600 security and finance decision-makers, finding 48% of security leaders rank AI agents operating with excessive, compromised, or unintended access as the top threat to their organization, ahead of external actors and malicious insiders. The report notes organizations are expanding AI agent monitoring via governance tooling, SIEM extension, and behavioral baselining, but cite behavioral context, correlation, and cross-system visibility as key gaps.