South Africa, Oct 12, 2026
AI is no longer just answering questions, it’s starting to take action: pulling data, calling tools, triggering workflows, and changing records in real systems. As organisations move from pilots to everyday operations, value accelerates, but so does risk. In the agentic era, the biggest security exposure is no longer the model; it’s what agents are allowed to see, do, and change with your data. That’s why data governance is becoming the new perimeter, the control plane for retrieval, tool use, and change authority.
With IDC projecting 1 billion AI agents by 2029 executing 217 billion actions every day, this IDC market brief shares what CIOs are reporting, why “shadow AI” is already here, and the three practical governance moves that let you scale fast without losing control.
Download the the IDC brief: Security in an age of AI: Why data governance makes a difference and discover the three governance moves to scale AI securely.
Further reading
- Securing AI becomes a top priority as CIOs rank AI alongside malware, ransomware and phishing as major cyber risk
- Has AI reduced the human risk in cybersecurity, or multiplied it?
- Watch: Harnessing AI: A CEO perspective
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