In the AI era, identity evolves into the control plane for trust
Identity just became the kill switch for rogue agents. Most enterprises have no idea how many are running.
Why it matters
As autonomous agents proliferate in enterprise environments, identity and access control have shifted from managing humans to governing machine actors. Organizations lack visibility into agent populations and lack frameworks to enforce least-privilege execution — a control gap that compounds agent-security risk.
The key facts
5 to knowIdentity management shifting from user authentication to agent-access authorization
Most organizations lack visibility into how many agents operate within their infrastructure
Agent governance requires identity-based control planes to enforce least-privilege execution
Existing IAM frameworks (user/password model) insufficient for agentic workload containment
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Publisher excerpt: Every major security shift ultimately comes down to one question: Who or what is allowed to do this? For most of the past two decades, the answer was a person with a username and password. In the artificial intelligence era, the answer increasingly is an agent, and most organizations have no idea…