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

The report argues that as agentic AI and LLMs proliferate across cloud-native enterprises, traditional security tools miss critical runtime risks and operate too slowly. It advocates a runtime-first approach with deep telemetry to improve observability, traceability, and explainability, enabling faster detection, correlation, and response. The piece outlines emerging AI-stack risk factors—including agent entitlements and decisions, agent-to-agent communications, model/manifest/protocol risks, provenance, and business logic—and urges CISOs to prioritize what is truly running and exploitable in production.