Agentic security: Detection and response at machine speed
Brief
After talking with enterprise security leaders over the past year, one thing has become clear: the rise of autonomous AI agents is the most significant shift in security posture since the move to cloud. Organizations across every industry are adopting AI agents that authenticate on behalf of users, execute multistep workflows, and make decisions across infrastructure, often without waiting for human approval.
Security operations need to keep pace.
At Amazon Web Services (AWS) , we believe security should evolve ahead of AI adoption, not behind it. That belief drove our team to collaborate with the SANS Institute on a new chapter in the 2026 Cloud Security Exchange eBook , where we lay out a practical framework for securing agentic workloads at enterprise scale.