AI agents are the new unmanaged endpoints
Remember the late 2000s, when personal smartphones started showing up in enterprise environments? Employees were connecting personal devices to corporate Wi-Fi, syncing work email to iPhones and accessing internal systems from hardware the security team had never touched and had no authority over.
I've spent more than 20 years in this industry, watching the same pattern repeat itself in different forms, across different technologies, with depressing reliability. Shadow IT. Cloud sprawl. Now AI agents.
The script is identical. Unfortunately, the stakes this time are considerably higher.
The 82-to-1 problem
Non-human identities now outnumber human users in enterprise environments by a ratio of 82 to 1, according to Rubrik Zero Labs' Identity Crisis Report published in 2025.
That means that for every employeeyour IT team has carefully provisioned, there are 82 machine identities operating across your environment. And unlike employees, most of those machine identities were never reviewed by security...
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