AI agents need a badge too
An automation acting on someone's behalf needs its own identity, not a coworker's borrowed password. Here's what changes when the agent has a badge.
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Identity
Articles on Identity: managed IT, security, cloud and corporate AI — technology for business, in practice.
Articles on Identity
The Permission Nobody Asks to Lose
People who change roles usually pile up access: they keep the old and gain the new. AI agents inherit the same habit, and the problem compounds fast.
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Role-based access, not all-access
Connecting an entire system to AI because it was 'the only way' leaves open permissions nobody uses. See what changes when access is granted by function.
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One Identity for People and Agents
Companies now run 109 machine identities per human. Once AI joins the operation, the corporate directory is what decides what it can see and do.
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When an employee leaves, their AI must leave too
Nearly 9 in 10 ex-employees still get into company systems after they go. Here is the mechanism that cuts AI access the instant someone leaves.
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The Same Badge to Log Into Everything — Including AI
International reports show companies full of AI tools that skip single sign-on entirely: their own password, no second factor, no login record.
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THE ACCOUNTS NOBODY HAS REVIEWED IN TWO YEARS
Nearly 4 in 10 corporate accounts belong to people who already left. See why an annual review doesn't fix it, and what replaces that control.
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