Your agents are running. Your controls aren't.

95% of organizations are already treating agents as a strategic priority. That’s from Docker's State of Agentic AI survey of 800+ developers and decision-makers worldwide. 60% already have them in production. Executives are mandating adoption across every function, and the teams that move first will out-execute everyone else.

So why is adoption stalling?

Security. It's the top blocker for 40% of teams building agents today, and it compounds at every layer. Infrastructure teams need secure sandboxing and runtime isolation. Operations teams are dealing with orchestration sprawl that creates blind spots. And at the governance layer, 45% of organizations say the biggest challenge is ensuring tools are secure, trusted, and enterprise-ready.

MCP is making it harder, not easier. 85% of teams are familiar with the Model Context Protocol, and two thirds actively use it. But most are operating in leap-of-faith mode: adopting MCP without the security guarantees they would demand from any other enterprise infrastructure. 46% of teams in early stages cite MCP security and compliance as their top concern.

The next phase of agent adoption won't be won on speed. It’ll be won by the teams that build governance in from the start.