Zenity Referenced in Gartner® Research:

The Future of AI Security is in Securing Agent Actions, Not Prompts

Learn why security must move beyond prompt filtering and focus on governing agent behavior and actions.

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What you’ll learn in this report

  • Why prompt filtering alone cannot secure autonomous AI agents
  • How AI security must shift toward governing agent actions and behavior
  • The new risks introduced by multiagent systems and agent tool access
  • Why identity, lifecycle management, and behavioral controls are critical for AI agents

Our key takeaways

  • AI security must shift from securing prompts to securing actions. Traditional controls inspect prompts and text interactions. Autonomous agents introduce risks through the actions they execute across systems and tools.
  • Agent ecosystems require behavioral governance. Security controls must operate within the agent’s reasoning and execution loops to monitor behavior and authorize actions in real time.
  • Multiagent systems expand the attack surface. Agents interact with APIs, tools, and other agents. Security must govern these interactions during runtime to prevent misuse, logic drift, and unauthorized operations.

Who we recommend this for

  • CISOs and security architecture leaders developing AI security strategies
  • Product and innovation leaders building AI-enabled platforms and applications
  • Engineering leaders deploying AI agents, copilots, and agent orchestration frameworks
  • Security teams responsible for AI trust, risk, and security management (TRiSM)
  • Technology leaders evaluating how to govern agent behavior and lifecycle risks at scale

Trusted by Forward-Looking Security Leaders

“With Zenity we were able to build a program to remediate existing vulnerabilities with a product that relies on self service and auto-fix so we can scale.”

Fortune 20 Technology
90%

Existing vulnerabilities remediated within 4 months with 2 FTEs

Fortune 20 Technology
280%

Tenant grew over 12 months

Fortune 20 Technology

“We needed a way to partner with the business. Zenity gives us confidence to continue enabling our employees to innovate with AI Agents and applications.”

Fortune 50 Pharmaceuticals
82%

People developing these systems are not professional developers

Fortune 50 Pharmaceuticals
2,000

Instances of agents and apps that were shared across the entire org

Fortune 50 Pharmaceuticals

"Zenity provided a preventative layer to proactively reduce security violations of our Agentic AI use. As a result, we saw tremendous growth in cross-departmental adoption of AI Agents."

Fortune 200 Consulting
90%

Reduction in security violations

Fortune 200 Consulting
95%

High-risk violations automatically remediated

Fortune 200 Consulting

"With Zenity, we identified and managed risks from a huge attack surface containing over-shared resources that had access to sensitive data, DLP bypass routes, and misconfigured AI Agents."

Fortune 50 Financial Services
80%

Risk reduction across the tenant containing 150k+ total resources

Fortune 50 Financial Services
180%

Growth in agent, app, and automation volume

Fortune 50 Financial Services

“With Zenity we were able to build a program to remediate existing vulnerabilities with a product that relies on self service and auto-fix so we can scale.”

Fortune 20 Technology
90%

Existing vulnerabilities remediated within 4 months with 2 FTEs

Fortune 20 Technology
280%

Tenant grew over 12 months

Fortune 20 Technology

“We needed a way to partner with the business. Zenity gives us confidence to continue enabling our employees to innovate with AI Agents and applications.”

Fortune 50 Pharmaceuticals
82%

People developing these systems are not professional developers

Fortune 50 Pharmaceuticals
2,000

Instances of agents and apps that were shared across the entire org

Fortune 50 Pharmaceuticals

"Zenity provided a preventative layer to proactively reduce security violations of our Agentic AI use. As a result, we saw tremendous growth in cross-departmental adoption of AI Agents."

Fortune 200 Consulting
90%

Reduction in security violations

Fortune 200 Consulting
95%

High-risk violations automatically remediated

Fortune 200 Consulting

"With Zenity, we identified and managed risks from a huge attack surface containing over-shared resources that had access to sensitive data, DLP bypass routes, and misconfigured AI Agents."

Fortune 50 Financial Services
80%

Risk reduction across the tenant containing 150k+ total resources

Fortune 50 Financial Services
180%

Growth in agent, app, and automation volume

Fortune 50 Financial Services

“With Zenity we were able to build a program to remediate existing vulnerabilities with a product that relies on self service and auto-fix so we can scale.”

Fortune 20 Technology
90%

Existing vulnerabilities remediated within 4 months with 2 FTEs

Fortune 20 Technology
280%

Tenant grew over 12 months

Fortune 20 Technology

“We needed a way to partner with the business. Zenity gives us confidence to continue enabling our employees to innovate with AI Agents and applications.”

Fortune 50 Pharmaceuticals
82%

People developing these systems are not professional developers

Fortune 50 Pharmaceuticals
2,000

Instances of agents and apps that were shared across the entire org

Fortune 50 Pharmaceuticals

"Zenity provided a preventative layer to proactively reduce security violations of our Agentic AI use. As a result, we saw tremendous growth in cross-departmental adoption of AI Agents."

Fortune 200 Consulting
90%

Reduction in security violations

Fortune 200 Consulting
95%

High-risk violations automatically remediated

Fortune 200 Consulting

"With Zenity, we identified and managed risks from a huge attack surface containing over-shared resources that had access to sensitive data, DLP bypass routes, and misconfigured AI Agents."

Fortune 50 Financial Services
80%

Risk reduction across the tenant containing 150k+ total resources

Fortune 50 Financial Services
180%

Growth in agent, app, and automation volume

Fortune 50 Financial Services

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Gartner, Emerging Tech: The Future of AI Security Is in Securing Agent Actions, Not Prompts, Mark Wah, David Senf, 20, February, 2026.

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