Key Takeaways Agent user identities now outnumber human identities at an astounding rate. Each new autonomous agent introduces a new identity, a new credential path, and a new surface area for attackers to exploit. Agent sprawl compounds classic identity security failures: over-provisioned OAuth scopes, reused service accounts, and long-lived tokens. Traditional IAM tooling was never…
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