Cybersecurity State of the Union, Part 3: Agentic AI Is Not a Tool Problem. It’s an Identity Problem.
AI is not coming. It's already sitting in your environment. Not as a chatbot. As something more dangerous and more useful. An agent. An agent can take actions. It can pull data. It can send email. It can open tickets. It can query systems. It can automate workflows. It can do what employees do, except faster, longer, and without boredom. That's the part everyone celebrates. Here's the part they miss. Agents require access. And access is where everything breaks. Agents behave like humans, but scale like machines A human might make one mistake a week. An agent can make a mistake a thousand times before lunch. A human might forget to close a session. An agent might run nonstop, with persistent tokens, forever. So when organizations bolt agents onto existing systems without governance, they don't just add productivity. They add a new class of identity that is often overprivileged and…
