The Identiverse AI Agent Illusion
By Ron Bowron Why Agents Need Human Sponsors, Not Just App Accounts Walking the expo floor at Mandalay Bay during Identiverse 2026, it was impossible to miss the sea of “Agent Identity” banners. If you closed your eyes, you’d think the identity community had completely solved the next generation of access management. But if you […]
Non-Human Identities and AI Agents: The New Blind Spot in Your IAM Program
By Navneet Lounsberry The numbers tell a story most security leaders aren’t prepared to hear. In enterprise cloud environments, non-human identities now outnumber human users on average at a 50 to 1 ratio, and some organizations have significantly higher ratios. A recent study found that 85% of identity-related cloud breaches involve compromised non-human identities. I’ve […]
AI is the New Thing, But Identity Management Still Demands a Focus on Fundamentals
Does the AI hype live up to the promise in IDM? There is an unprecedented amount of buzz and even more investment in AI that echoes historical tech bubbles (Dot-Com, Telecom, Crypto) in a way that should have us all reaching for a pinch of salt. Some researchers and industry experts are doing exactly […]
The Rise of the Machine Employee
Why 2026 is the Year of Non-Human Identity Governance To: My Fellow CISOs and Risk Leaders For years, we’ve focused on the “Human Firewall.” We’ve perfected MFA, rolled out passkeys, and trained our teams to spot phishing. But as we enter 2026, the primary threat to your enterprise isn’t just the employee behind the keyboard—it’s […]