Why CISOs And Cybersecurity Teams Are NOT Ready For Agentic AI

A Second AI Revolution Is Here — And Security Teams Are Unprepared

In 2022, GenAI changed the tech landscape with the launch of ChatGPT

With the further explosion of tools like ChatGPT, Bard, and Midjourney, businesses saw the power of AI that could generate content, automate processes, and supercharge productivity.

But for CISOs and cybersecurity teams, it introduced new challenges — data leakage risks, prompt injection attacks, AI model poisoning, and adversarial manipulations.

Fast forward to today, and we are on the brink of another AI revolution — Agentic AI.

This isn’t just an upgrade; it’s a fundamental shift in how AI operates.

If Generative AI was about producing content from prompts, Agentic AI is about taking autonomous action. And security teams are not ready.

Agentic AI: A Leap Into The Unknown

Unlike Generative AI, which responds to queries in a controlled way, Agentic AI is goal-driven, autonomous, and capable of making independent decisions.

It can:

• Plan, execute, and adapt tasks…