RSAC 2026 Proved the Industry Agrees on the Problem — Now Comes the Hard Part

**Executive summary:** A post‑RSAC 2026 analysis arguing that agentic AI governance is an urgent and unsolved industry problem: vendors are prioritizing agent discovery and runtime protections while many organizations lack containment controls, evidence‑quality audit trails, and centralized data‑layer governance; the author recommends enforcing identity, ABAC policy, encryption, and tamper‑evident logging at the data layer to make AI governance durable across platforms.