Survey: AI Agents Are Now Biggest Threat To Cybersecurity
Security Boulevard, Friday, August 8th, 2025
A survey of 200 North American security leaders published finds nearly two-thirds (63%) now feel the biggest internal security threat is their employees unknowingly giving artificial intelligence (AI) agents access to sensitive data.
Conducted by OpinionRoute on behalf of 1Password, the survey also finds half (50%) acknowledge their organization has already experienced a confirmed or suspected cyber incident caused by AI or AI agents in the last six months.
Only 21% of security leaders say they have full visibility into all AI tool utilization, and nearly one-third (32%) believe up to half (50%) of their employees are using unauthorized AI tools. In total, only 2.5% of organizations believe they have full visibility into the AI applications and the level of data they can access.