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6%

6% -- budget allocation for organizations (2026)

2026  · n=300  · Arkose Labs

On average, organizations allocate only 6% of their security budgets to AI-agent risk.

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6%
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Percentage
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2026
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organizations
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300
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Arkose Labs Primary Tier A
https://www.arkoselabs.com/blog/agentic-ai-security-risk-enterprise-readiness/ ↗
Confidence: 66/100 Vintage: 2026 Channel: Common Crawl
Source Article
The Agentic AI Security Gap
Is Your Business Ready? The threat is no longer hypothetical. AI agents – autonomous systems capable of planning, reasoning and acting across digital environments — are already operating inside enterprise systems. They’re retrieving data, triggering transactions, and interacting across services thro…
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Global survey of enterprise leaders conducted in February 2026

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organizations: 6% budget allocation. Source: Arkose Labs (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai_agent_risk_budget_allocation
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai_agent_risk_budget_allocation" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>6%</strong> -- budget allocation for organizations<br><small>Source: Arkose Labs (2026) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai_agent_risk_budget_allocation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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