Why 2025’s agentic AI boom is a CISO’s worst nightmare

By late 2025, standard RAG systems (retrieval-augmented generation, where an AI pulls in external documents to answer questions) are failing at high rates, pushing companies toward agentic AI (autonomous systems that can plan and execute tasks independently). While agentic systems solve reliability problems, they create a critical security risk: they can autonomously execute malicious instructions, which threatens enterprise security.