Gartner® Report: Secure AI Agents with Identity Governance Foundation

Secure AI agents as specialized workload identities to safely scale enterprise automation.

Enterprises face intense pressure to rapidly adopt and scale agentic AI, yet Gartner® research states that 58% of organizations report a cybersecurity incident involving AI-linked machine identities. Without persistent identity controls and task-specific scoping, overprivileged software agents create critical attack paths and severe security exposures across enterprise systems.

Download the report and explore how to:

• Manage AI agents as specialized workload identities
• Enforce identity registration and human ownership
• Eliminate static secrets with just-in-time access
• Leverage existing IGA tools before niche platforms

Gartner, Inc. Secure AI Agents With Identity Governance Foundation. Zachary Smith, Paul Rabinovich, et al. 17 September 2026.

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