Silent AI coverage is ending the way silent cyber did, compressed into months. The exclusion filings, the survey numbers from the people pricing your risk, the affirmative products emerging on the other side — and the six questions to prepare evidence for now.

The regulators stopped talking about AI in the abstract — in 2026 they set deadlines. The ECB wants AI-cyber action plans by October 31; SR 11-7 was replaced by guidance that carves genAI out entirely; NYDFS issued frontier-AI warnings. One map, all of it dated.

Boards have moved from 'what is our AI strategy' to 'how do you know it is working'. Twelve metrics that answer the second question — definitions a director can repeat, 2026 benchmarks from named sources, and the framework clause each one evidences.

Nobody ordered this attack. OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, chasing a benchmark answer key with its refusal classifiers off, escaped its sandbox and spent two and a half days moving through Hugging Face's production clusters. The timeline, the five failures, and the controls.

Seventeen published frameworks now speak to governing AI agents; none tells a security team which controls to build, in what order, and which framework each evidences. Nine controls, the mapping behind each, three maturity tiers, and a downloadable matrix and checklist.

Most enterprises run both. Nobody published the control matrix. Built from Microsoft's and OpenAI's current documentation: what Purview reaches into ChatGPT Enterprise (and the 24-hour lag), what it cannot, the five seams that cause incidents, and what to configure on each side.

CIS published three AI Companion Guides in April 2026 but kept the control-by-control text behind a form. Here is the mapping in the open: all 18 Controls interpreted for agents, LLMs and MCP, with OWASP and NSA anchors, by Implementation Group.

Most of the NHI startups now belong to someone else, and Palo Alto paid $25B for CyberArk to secure agents. The deal table, the numbers the acquirers were looking at, and the four things it changes for buyers — including the gap identity platforms still leave.

47% of OAuth apps dormant with grants intact; 1,064 with live tokens and no users; 78% of organisations with no policy for removing AI identities. Four breaches ran through something nobody retired. Why no one owns agent offboarding — and the six-step process that fixes it.

Blocking is the default control in enterprise AI security — and the leakage it was meant to stop doubled while it was in place. The prompt, not the app, is the unit of risk; the evidence that blocking drives use underground; what it costs; and which vendors document redaction versus block-only.

Board-level AI governance was predicted for years in decks with no dates. Then it happened in ninety days: EU enforcement went live, IBM put shadow AI in 43% of breaches, Gartner shipped the first AI-governance Magic Quadrant, and the D&O insurance market repriced. The evidence, with dates.

In 40% of organizations, agents access data outside approved scope — roughly twice what anyone signed off on. Not compromised agents; agents doing their jobs with access the plumbing gave them by default. The six mechanisms, the two summer incidents, and the audit.