The Next Security Battleground: Agentic Identity

Shahar Tal of Cyata outlines a vision for a unified control plane to discover, govern, and audit AI agents operating across enterprise tools, addressing the rise of “shadow agents” and the need for policy, least-privilege access, and measurable accountability. As agent adoption accelerates from both grassroots experimentation and executive mandates, the piece argues identity-centric controls are the most practical way to safely scale agentic work.