AI agents can act. Can your organisation stop them?
- Live Webinar | Thursday 15 October | 3 PM UK / 10 AM ET
71.8% of organisations surveyed allow AI agents to act on systems without human approval. Of those organisations, 75.5% cannot revoke the agents’ access.
Neil Gad
Chief Product and Technology Officer, RealVNC®
Nick Cavalancia
4X Microsoft MVP · Host
Anton Zdziebczok
VP of Product, RealVNC®
What we’ll discuss
Who can hit the brakes? Why the organisations allowing autonomous action are often unable to revoke agent access.
Where agents can go. How agents are reaching legacy, OT and non-API systems, and what that means for access control.
What has already gone wrong. The incidents respondents reported, including operational disruption and data exposure.
What IT may not know about. The 39.2% reporting agent use without formal IT or security approval.
Which controls matter next. What respondents say they need, and the gap between confidence in oversight and the capabilities in place.
You’ll leave with a clearer set of questions to ask about agent access, approval, monitoring and revocation in your own environment.
Who should attend
IT, security and operational leaders responsible for AI agents, remote access, legacy systems or OT environments.
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A preview of the data
75.5%
Of organisations that allow agents to act without human approval cannot revoke agent access.
28%
Reported an incident involving an AI agent in the past 12 months.
42%
Of respondents who were very or extremely confident they would detect an agent acting outside its intended scope had no real-time monitoring in place.
Source: RealVNC 2026 Agentic AI Survey. Online survey of 227 IT and technical decision makers in the US, UK and Canada, fielded September 2026. The figures above have different respondent bases; the webinar will explain the findings in context.