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What CRN's 2026 Annual Report Card Says About the Next Phase of AI Security

AI security is entering a more demanding phase. The market is moving beyond who can add AI to a product and toward who can make it useful in the real world — across existing security environments, partner ecosystems, and day-to-day operations. CRN’s 2026 Annual Report Card offers a useful snapshot of that shift. In the AI Security category, Exabeam earned the top overall score at 90.6, leading all four subcategories and every one of the 21 individual evaluation criteria.

Features Don't Win Budget Conversations. Operational Evidence Does.

CISOs can strengthen security budget conversations by replacing feature comparisons with measurable operational evidence. Establish the current burden, show how an investment changes security operations, and connect those improvements to financial impact. Metrics such as alert volume, analyst investigation time, manual effort, and capacity gained help CFOs evaluate security investments in terms of cost, benefit, predictability, and measurable business value. Every CISO has been there.

Why Autonomy Breaks Traditional Security Operations Workflows

Autonomy breaks traditional security operations workflows because AI agents can act continuously and independently inside approved environments. When activity is initiated and executed without a human in the loop, event-by-event review and short correlation windows fail to capture progression, intent, and accumulated risk.

How Behavioral Analytics Closes the Insider Threat Dwell Time Gap

Insider threats often remain hidden during early activity because individual actions appear normal in isolation. Behavioral analytics closes the dwell time gap by establishing baselines for normal behavior, evaluating activity over time, and identifying meaningful deviations before attackers trigger traditional detections.

Behavior Intelligence for the Agentic Enterprise

The rise of AI agents is transforming the enterprise — and redefining insider risk. As organizations deploy AI agents alongside human employees, understanding behavior has become essential to detecting threats that traditional security approaches miss. Exabeam secures both human and AI agents with Behavior Intelligence, combining behavioral analytics and agent-powered security operations to reduce risk, accelerate threat detection, investigation, and response, and help organizations confidently secure the agentic enterprise.