Enterprise Agentic AI Governance and Cost Control

Financial workflows governance gap: 23% incident rate, 79% lack dedicated teams; tokenmaxxing era ends as finance teams track AI spend per token; Ramp reports 20.7x spend increase; Cisco kill switches, Fireworks inference economics; autonomous data pipelines; human review queue best practices; LLM vulnerability detection limits; AI cybersecurity: 63% CISOs say attackers advantage; nuclear weapons analogy for AI safety (Anthropic/OpenAI sandbox escapes); legal liability vacuum; Box report: 83% of enterprises run agents but only 36% connect to trusted content, 49% data exposure incidents; tokenomics analysis shows cost explosion and budgeting challenges. New: distributed generative AI governance solutions like TOLAP/Prism for multi-cloud data access control.