Why Identity Governance Demands Executive Attention
CSO Online, Friday, October 30th, 2026
CSO Online, with SailPoint input, argues identity governance now needs executive attention as AI agents and machine identities multiply.
The article says employees and contractors now share the enterprise with service accounts, machine identities and AI agents, each an access decision that boards and regulators expect leaders to prove they govern.
Foundry research ranks identity security among the top cybersecurity priorities for 2026.
SailPoint's Bryan Kelley says credential sprawl across the tech stack lets agents, including rogue ones, find and abuse exposed keys, tokens and secrets.
It argues leaders need a real-time view of each identity's permissions, that non-human identities need the same rigor as human ones, and that quarterly or annual access reviews cannot keep up.