Agentic Security: Detection and Response at Machine Speed
AWS, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
AWS argues autonomous AI agents are the biggest shift in security posture since cloud and outlines machine-speed detection and response.
Drawing on a year of conversations with enterprise security leaders, AWS argues that the rise of autonomous AI agents is the most significant shift in security posture since the move to the cloud.
Organizations across every industry are deploying agents that authenticate on behalf of users, execute multistep workflows and make decisions across systems, which changes what has to be monitored and controlled.
The post lays out how detection and response need to operate at machine speed to keep pace with agent-driven activity. It is aimed at security teams building controls for agentic workloads rather than traditional human-driven access patterns.