Executive Summary The current evidence supports a focused conclusion: security operations can gain value from AI-assisted and agentic workflows, but sustainable autonomy depends on identity, constrained permissions, human decision rights, traceability, testing, and recovery. The strongest public guidance does not treat autonomy as permission to operate without governance. It treats greater capability as a reason to make controls more explicit. This report synthesizes recent primary guidance from NIST, NCSC, OWASP, CISA-linked standards work, and MITRE-aligned security knowledge. It does not claim a universal productivity result or a universal maturity level. Vendor announ…

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