In the AI era, identity evolves into the control plane for trust

What happened

The same research found that more than half of organizations can’t consistently enforce least-privilege access for service accounts across cloud, software-as-a-service and on-premises systems. 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 how many agents […] The post In the AI era, identity evolves into the control plane for trust appeared first on SiliconANGLE . In the artificial intelligence era, the answer increasingly is an agent, and most organizations have no idea how many agents they have, what they can reach, or who is responsible for them.

This is the primary reason identity has become a critical, and some would argue the most important, layer in the AI security stack. The identity math has changed A tremendous amount of data provides support for the identity thesis.

SailPoint’s own research is equally telling: Some 97% of AI agents (AI that carries out multi-step tasks rather than answering one question) have access to sensitive data , yet only 21% of organizations are highly confident they can manage AI agent security risks. Put those together, and you have an exploding population of highly privileged identities that almost nobody is governing well.

Key facts

• The same research — found: that more than half of organizations can’t consistently enforce least-privilege access for service accounts across cloud, software-as-a-service and on-premises systems
• The identity math has changed A tremendous amount of data — support: the identity thesis