Non-human identities vastly outnumber human ones, and the rapid rise of Agentic AI is transforming these identities from passive, deterministic processes into autonomous digital actors, capable of making decisions and initiating actions at machine speed.

As organizations deploy AI agents that operate with limited human oversight, traditional IAM, security, and governance models are being pushed beyond their original design. The result is a fast-growing, largely ungoverned attack surface, where access is routinely over-privileged, accountability is unclear, and existing controls were never built for identities that can replicate, reason, and act independently.