By Grady Summers, CEO, Netwrix
Security was built for people. AI agents are exposing the gap.
Forty-four years after Blade Runner imagined replicants walking among us, security teams are managing their own version of a non-human workforce.
These replicants already have accounts, permissions, and access to sensitive data. They are AI agents, service accounts, OAuth applications, workload identities, and the growing number of machine identities that already outnumber people in many enterprise environments.
That distinction matters because identity security was built around human behavior. People join companies, change roles, take vacations, and eventually leave. Those lifecycle events became the foundation of identity governance. Machine identities rarely follow that pattern.
