Real risks live at runtime: Why CISOs must care about deep telemetry in 2026

The report argues that as cloud-native and agentic AI environments grow, CISOs must prioritize runtime telemetry and visibility to manage new risk factors—such as agent entitlements, agent-to-agent communication, model poisoning/exfiltration, protocol risks, and provenance issues—and that runtime insights are foundational for observability, traceability, and explainability to reduce noise and sharpen security priorities.