Why AI agent governance must start with enterprise data

Executives are spending a great deal of time asking whether AI agents are ready for production, but this is the wrong place to start, because agents aren’t acting in a vacuum. The quality of their decisions depends heavily on the quality of the data they use.Model security and performance matter, of course, but they cannot compensate for weak control over the information the agent can retrieve. Before putting an agent into production, an organization needs governed inputs, appropriate acce