IT Leaders Want Better Security, Data Privacy From AI Agents
CIODIVE, Friday, April 18th, 2025
Despite identifying areas of concern, nearly all companies plan to expand agentic use in the next 12 months, a Cloudera report found.
Enterprises are ramping up agentic AI use and adoption plans despite identifying implementation roadblocks and areas ripe for improvement, a Cloudera report published Wednesday found. The data management vendor surveyed nearly 1,500 enterprise IT leaders earlier this year.
Nearly all - 96% - of those surveyed plan to expand AI agent use in their organization in the next 12 months, with half preparing for widespread implementation. Businesses are most interested in performance optimization agents, followed by security monitoring agents and development assistants.
Despite adoption ambitions, execution isn't simple. IT leaders pointed to stronger data privacy and security features and faster training and customization as key changes they'd like to see in existing agents. Nearly 2 in 5 enterprises found integrating the technology with current systems very or extremely challenging.