Updated October 20, 2026
Agentic At Large
“95% of CISOs tie an AI agent to an insider incident.” A survey of 600 CISOs; the count covers any linked incident, not severity (Help Net Security, Oct 14).
“86.4% have AI agents running. 12.5% can trace one.” A vendor survey of 380+ professionals; 17.5% can automatically stop an agent (Security Today, Oct 14).
“Regulators now ask for the record.” The EU AI Office sent its first AI Act information requests on two lab incidents (AI Weekly, Oct 14).
It's also the first thing attackers target. Most organizations are one compromised IdP away from total auth failure — and their AI agents make the blast radius 10x worse.
Every piece of intelligence from Signal Fire Aim follows the same pattern — the problem, the shift, and why the window is now.
When the IdP goes down, authentication stops. Revenue stops. Operations stop. Manual failover takes hours. AI agents make the blast radius catastrophic.
Rubrik + Strata redefines identity from a security problem to a resilience problem. Identity Continuity means auth never stops. Identity Roll Forward means clean recovery, not a stale rollback.
Every enterprise deploying AI creates non-human identities at scale. Rubrik Agent Cloud governs them. The announcement is coming. The organizations ready for it will be the 4%.
Signal Fire Aim is the GTM intelligence layer for the agentic era — covering identity governance, AI security, and enterprise technology for CISOs, CIOs, and the people selling to them.
Published by James Murphy under the Agentic At Large brand. I called identity the control plane early, tracking Strata Identity, Maverics, and the non-human identity explosion before the Rubrik acquisition made it enterprise news. Now I follow who is building the controls, from the agent governance stacks to UMA for Agents, and how governments from Brussels to Canberra are deciding who is accountable.
"Every crisis eventually surfaces the people who saw it coming."
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