Identity governance becomes an executive accountability issue as AI agents and machine identities multiply

This is a vendor-aligned opinion piece with no CVEs, incidents or affected products. It argues that periodic access reviews leave gaps such as stale permissions and active orphaned accounts, and that credential sprawl across API keys, tokens and secrets can be abused by trusted or rogue AI agents, as quoted from SailPoint's Bryan Kelley. Suggested defensive measures are unifying identity data across systems, treating non-human identities with the same rigour as human ones, automating low-risk approvals while flagging high-risk access, and keeping an audit trail of access decisions.

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