AI Agents Used by 68% of Top-Performing Cybersecurity Teams

New three-year benchmark data from Hack The Box (HTB) shows that 68% of the top 25 cybersecurity teams included an AI agent, despite AI agents accounting for just 2.7% of all participants. The 2026 Global Cyber Skills Benchmark highlights the growing adoption of AI agents among high-performing security teams.

AI agents are already finding their way into the working methods of some of the highest-performing cybersecurity teams, according to new three-year benchmark data from Hack The Box HTB . The 2026 Global Cyber Skills Benchmark found that 68% of the top 25 teams included an AI agent, despite AI agents accounting for just 2.7% of … The post AI Agents Used by 68% of Top-Performing Cybersecurity Teams https://www.itsecurityguru.org/2026/08/27/ai-agents-used-by-68-of-top-performing-cybersecurity-teams/ appeared first on IT Security Guru https://www.itsecurityguru.org .