AI Agents are breaking data security, here’s how to fix it

**Executive summary:** The report explains that agentic AI workflows (autonomous and semi-autonomous agents) break assumptions in traditional data security and identity stacks built for humans, and recommends a new playbook—Discover, Govern, Protect, Validate—to inventory agents, enforce intent- and blast-radius-based governance, apply inline protections (redaction, tool-call blocking, halting out-of-scope actions), and continuously validate controls; it positions Cyera's solution as addressing these gaps and enabling audit evidence of agent behavior.