Survey: governing AI agents is top barrier to scaling

A Foundry and Rubrik survey of 200 IT and AI decision makers found most agents operate with full (26%) or limited (35%) autonomy. Governance, guardrails and compliance were cited by 42% as implementation obstacles, and 24% named security and governance as the top scaling barrier, ahead of technical complexity (17%) and lack of proven ROI (14%).

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