Cisco’s 2026 Data and Privacy Benchmark Study (covering 5,200 professionals) confirms a massive shift: Trust is no longer a feeling, it's infrastructure.
As AI becomes Agentic (autonomous decision-making), privacy and security are merging into a single requirement.
- The Investment: 93% of orgs are increasing governance spend because of AI.
- The Reality Gap: While 75% have an AI governance body, only 12% call it "mature."
- The Agentic Risk: Traditional governance watched data storage. New governance must watch data workflows and escalation paths for autonomous agents.
Governance is moving from "Legal Defense" to "Operational Offense." If you can't trace transparency and explainability in real-time, you can't deploy agents. Period.
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