Most companies believe they can see AI bots moving through their networks. The harder question is whether they understand what those bots are doing once they get there.

New research from Hydrolix suggests enterprise confidence is running well ahead of readiness. In The State of AI Bots in 2026: Risk, Readiness, and Governance, a survey of 300 enterprise leaders across IT security, engineering, infrastructure and site reliability engineering found that 79% of respondents said they can detect bot activity on their networks.