AI agents touched sensitive data in 87% of firms, while only 19% caught it in real time

Enterprise AI adoption has moved faster than the governance designed to contain it. What Delinea’s 2026 Identity Security Report makes uncomfortably concrete is how wide that gap has become — and how consistently organisations on both sides of it are underestimating the exposure. The report surveyed over 4,500 respondents across two distinct groups: IT and security leaders, and the non-IT employees who actually spin up enterprise AI tools day to day.