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Identity Lifecycle Management Wasn't Built for AI Agents

·Source: The Hacker News

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Executive Summary

Identity lifecycle management was architected around a person with an employment record, a manager, and a departure date. AI agents have none of those. As autonomous principals proliferate across enterprise environments, the governance model built for humans develops structural blind spots that traditional IGA tools weren't designed to detect. This guide covers where that model breaks, what it

Analysis

Identity lifecycle management was architected around a person with an employment record, a manager, and a departure date. AI agents have none of those. As autonomous principals proliferate across enterprise environments, the governance model built for humans develops structural blind spots that traditional IGA tools weren't designed to detect. This guide covers where that model breaks, what it
Source Attribution

Originally published by The Hacker News on Jul 2, 2026.

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