The AI governance gap isn't a technology problem. It's an organizational one.
Most mid-market companies — the 50-to-500-employee firms moving fastest on AI adoption — have no one whose job it is to secure their AI systems. The CISO, if there is one, owns infrastructure and endpoints. The engineering team owns velocity. The AI agents being deployed into production sit between these two mandates, governed by neither.
The result is predictable: customer-facing AI agents with access to sensitive data, no output guardrails, and no monitoring. Internal agents making decisions with no audit trail. Prompt injection vulnerabilities that wouldn't survive a weekend on a bug bounty program — if anyone thought to test for them. This isn't negligence. It's a structural gap. And it's everywhere.