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Your AI agents are employees now. Nobody onboarded them

Every agent you deploy gets credentials, data access and the ability to act — but almost no organisation manages them the way it manages people. That gap is the identity story of 2026.

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Your AI agents are employees now. Nobody onboarded them
Cybersecurity

Your AI agents are employees now. Nobody onboarded them

Every agent you deploy gets credentials, data access and the ability to act — but almost no organisation manages them the way it manages people. That gap is the identity story of 2026.

Your supplier's back door: why third-party breaches quadrupled
Cybersecurity

Your supplier's back door: why third-party breaches quadrupled

Attackers stopped attacking you directly. IBM's 2026 threat index shows supply chain and third-party incidents rising fourfold in five years — and the entry point is usually a valid token, not an exploit.

The prompt era is over. The agent era hasn't started yet
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The prompt era is over. The agent era hasn't started yet

Task-specific agents are shipping inside most enterprise software this year, but only a fraction ever reach production. The gap between the two numbers is the real story of 2026.