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AI Drives New Access Control Requirements

AI agents can move through your environment in seconds. If enforcement takes minutes, detection is too late. This IDC InfoBrief, sponsored by Portnox, shows what buyers are prioritizing in 2026 and what to measure instead. 

What the research found

Four findings from IDC’s 2026 buyer surveys.

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Agent-to-agent AI access ranked first among access control types in 2026 zero trust plans 

IDC Zero-Trust Segmentation Buyer Adoption Survey, March 2026, n=400 
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Said security and compliance requirements were an important factor in deploying AI extensively

IDC 2026 FERS Survey, Wave 2, n=1,009
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NAC ranks second among technologies for comprehensive visibility and contextual information 

IDC Zero-Trust Segmentation Buyer Adoption Survey, March 2026, n=400 
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Said their NAC is effective to very effective at increasing the granularity of segmentation policies 

IDC Zero-Trust Segmentation Buyer Adoption Survey, March 2026.  
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Agent-to-agent AI access ranked first among access control types in 2026 zero trust plans 

IDC Zero-Trust Segmentation Buyer Adoption Survey, March 2026, n=400 

Four ideas worth taking to your next security review

  • AI agents are a new identity category. They need their own access rules. 
  • Detection alone is too slow at machine speed. Enforcement has to follow immediately. 
  • The metric to track is how quickly a detected risk becomes an enforced control. 
  • Bake-offs against known attacks leave you unprepared for AI. Here is how to test differently. 

Don't take our word for it

How Portnox Closes the Gap

Portnox secures every identity, human and non-human, across networks, applications, and infrastructure. It continuously checks identity context, device posture, and risk signals, and can restrict, quarantine, or revoke access when something falls out of policy. 

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