Orphaned AI Agents: How to Find Hidden Access Risks Inside Your Network

Companies are leaving AI agents (automated tools that run independently) active even after employees who created them leave, giving these tools permanent access to sensitive data and code without proper oversight. Traditional security tools miss this risk because they monitor AI like regular software and don't know which human authorized each AI action, making it hard to track whether an AI's data access is legitimate. The article describes this as a significant security problem but focuses mainly on identifying where these orphaned agents exist rather than fixing them.