In the AI era, identity evolves into the control plane for trust

Every major security shift ultimately comes down to one question: Who or what is allowed to do this?

For most of the past two decades, the answer was a person with a username and password. In the artificial intelligence era, the answer increasingly is an agent, and most organizations have no idea how many agents they have, what they can reach, or who is responsible for them.

This is the primary reason identity has become a critical, and some would…