The Replicant in Your Directory: AI Agents and the Identity Security Gap

AI agents and other machine identities (automated accounts that aren't people) are creating a security gap because traditional identity security was designed around human behavior like hiring, role changes, and departures. Machine identities now outnumber human users by up to 50 to one in many organizations, but security teams often don't know what they are, who owns them, or what systems they can access, making them an easy entry point for attackers.