The AI Velocity Paradox: Why Security Is Decades Behind AI Ambition

Summary: A SailPoint "Horizons of Identity Security" report cited by The Hacker News describes a "velocity paradox" in which enterprises pursue AI-speed operations while relying on human-speed security controls, with a combined 60% of organizations still in Horizon 1 ("No Formal Program") or Horizon 2 ("Manual, Tool-Assisted"). The report attributes the gap to an architectural ceiling rather than lack of effort, noting that playbooks built to govern human employees do not scale to autonomous agents executing thousands of transactions per minute, and that 49% of the market claims to "balance both equally" without the operational capability to enforce it.
Why it matters: Nearly half of the market says it balances speed and security equally, but the report calls that a stall when the capability to enforce it is absent - and with 60% of organizations still at foundational identity maturity, the autonomous agents already running in their environments are governed by controls designed for people.

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