CISOs: Anchor AI Security Budgets in Risk, Not Fear

Heading into 2026, CISOs are facing immense pressure, both internally and externally, to support implementations of and provide protections or AI agent security. However, the business pressure to adopt agentic AI is often driven more by industry hype and fear of missing out headlines than actual operational risk. As a result, organizations that budget for AI security based on fear will likely either panic-overspend on controls they don't need or perilously under-invest where it actually counts. Most organizations should expect to allocate a portion of their cybersecurity budget to agentic security in 2026. This investment will fund governance workflows, behavioral…