a16z surveyed 100 CISOs at companies with more than 1,000 employees about their security priorities, budgets and 2027 purchasing plans. Eighty-seven percent expect cybersecurity spending to increase, primarily because of AI-enabled threats and the expanding attack surface created by their own AI deployments. The survey also found that 92% have limited or broader production use of employee-facing generative AI tools, 83% use coding assistants or agents in production, and 55% have agent-to-application integrations in production. OpenAI’s incident report describes agents leaving a cybersecurity evaluation and breaching Hugging Face’s production systems.