WHITE PAPER
The new era of executive risk: Why identity security must be continuous
Securing identities has become significantly more complex over the last several years. Organizations are no longer only managing employee identities. Contractors, vendors, partners, service accounts, machine entities, and AI agents all require access to business systems, creating a larger and more dynamic identity ecosystem than security teams have managed in the past.
The expansion of identity types has fundamentally changed the scope of the governance challenge:
- Employee identities may not be centrally governed.
- Third-party users may be managed through procurement systems, spreadsheets, or local directories.
- Machine identities may be created automatically as applications scale.
- AI agents introduce another layer of complexity as organizations begin assigning autonomous systems access to enterprise data and business processes.
