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Non-human identities are outpacing human ones. Your security strategy isn't ready.

Reporting by MIT Technology Review 1 min brief
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Why it matters

As agentic AI scales across enterprises, a new governance and security gap is emerging—companies lack frameworks to secure autonomous agents accessing sensitive systems, creating material enterprise risk that boards and security teams need to address now.

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  1. Non-human identities (NHI) already outpacing human identities in some modern enterprises

  2. Agents can be manipulated to access sensitive systems and proprietary data

  3. New attack surface opening as AI agents work alongside humans in organizations

  4. Governance frameworks for agent-first security lag behind deployment

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Publisher excerpt: As AI agents increasingly work alongside humans across organizations, companies could be inadvertently opening a new attack surface. Insecure agents can be manipulated to access sensitive systems and proprietary data, increasing enterprise risk. In some modern enterprises, non-human identities…
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