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2026 AI Governance Gap Report

Discover how organizations manage the risks and challenges introduced by AI agents as they become embedded in core business processes.

Based on survey insights from 286 IT, compliance, and security leaders, this report examines whether governance is keeping pace with enterprise AI adoption.

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In This Report You Will Learn

  • AI agent adoption by business function
    Discover which business functions and enterprise applications are embedding AI agents most rapidly.
  • Governance readiness for AI agents
    Assess how organizations assign accountability and establish governance controls for AI-driven activity.
  • Visibility and traceability of AI actions
    Explore whether organizations can verify, trace, and explain AI-driven actions across business systems.
  • AI risk detection and investigation
    Learn how prepared enterprises are to detect, investigate, and respond to AI-related incidents.

Executive Summary

As AI agents become embedded in core business processes, they are increasingly executing transactions, approving workflows, and performing actions that have direct financial and operational impact. Yet governance is struggling to keep pace, leaving organizations with critical gaps in visibility, accountability, and control.

As a result, nearly one in five organizations has experienced a formal incident involving AI agents. However, the actual number may be significantly higher, as more than half of organizations are not even sure they are aware of all AI agents operating within their business systems.

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