A new report from Zero Networks this month has studied whether enterprise servers are being sufficiently protected from their own internal AI agents. Zero Networks' 2026 Lateral Movement Exposure Report analysed 54 trillion activities across 312 enterprise environments over a period of one month, finding that 80% of enterprise servers are reachable from anywhere inside the network – creating the perfect conditions for ransomware, operational disruption, and full-environment compromise. This internal traffic, known as East West traffic, represents more than 70% of a company's communications – yet remains unprotected.

Among the key findings of the report are that roughly 80% of enterprises have already deployed internal AI agents, yet two-thirds lack governance policies for them, creating rapidly expanding unmanaged attack surfaces. What's more, 87% of enterprise servers accept inbound RDP or SSH connections from broad internal sources, giving attackers wide access pathways once inside the network. They also discovered that 78% of enterprise servers are reachable over SMB or WinRM, the same administrative protocols commonly exploited by attackers for ransomware spread and lateral movement. Alongside the report, Zero Networks has also launched Breach Map, a free tool available on their website, that shows security leaders their own blast radius before attackers do.

"For seven years, we've engineered toward a single outcome: an attacker breaches a network protected by Zero, and discovers there's nowhere left to go. In the AI era, that outcome isn't aspirational, it's essential," said Benny Lakunishok, CEO and Co-Founder of Zero Networks. "For the first time, risk leaders can benchmark their network security against the reality of hundreds of live enterprise environments and see precisely where they stand. But you cannot contain what you cannot see. That's why we built Breach Map: to expose every open lateral movement path in your environment, so you can close it before an attacker walks through it."

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