Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What the two reports actually say Two documents worth reading together landed this summer. One is a vendor survey with a headline number engineered to make a board sit up. The other is an academic literature review with no marketing department behind it. The survey tells you how often agents are going wrong. The review tells you where to look. And the survey's own data quietly explains why its respondents cannot answer that second question for themselves. 88% reported an incident. Gravitee's State of AI Agent Security 2026, a survey of 919 executives and practitioners, found that 88% of organisations reported AI agent security incidents in the last twelve months. Healthcare came in higher still at 92.7%, against that 88% all-industry average. 82% believe their policies cover it. Eighty-…
