The TopCat AI Signal Report #81

The strongest signal today is that agentic security is becoming a new category.

AI agents now outnumber humans by about 144 to 1 in enterprise apps, according to recent analysis.[mattbritton]

That ratio changes everything.

Traditional security was built around human identities: employees, contractors, service accounts, and admin users.

Now, the majority of “actors” in your environment are non-human: autonomous agents that can read data, call APIs, write code, send messages, and trigger workflows without direct human oversight.[mattbritton +1]

In response, a new category is forming: agentic security.

This refers to tools and practices designed specifically to monitor, govern, and secure AI agents operating inside enterprise environments.[mattbritton]

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