Agentic AI is already running in production environments across many organizations today. It is executing tasks, consuming data, and taking actions — most likely without meaningful involvement from the security team. The industry conversation has largely framed this as a question of policy: allow it, restrict it, or monitor it? However, that framing misses the point.
The more urgent question is whether security professionals actually understand what they are dealing with. In most organizations, they don't right now. And that gap is compounding by the week.
You cannot secure what you do not understand
The foundational principle of information security has not changed: genuine fluency in a technology must come before you can meaningfully defend it.
Think about firewalls. You cannot configure one well without understanding networking. When cloud computing arrived, organizations that skipped the foundational work ended up with environments they could not reason about — tools purchased, policies written, and still no real control. We have cloud security as its own discipline today precisely because the technology demanded that practitioners develop deep familiarity with it before security could follow.
