Shahar Tal, CEO and co-founder of Cyata, discusses how the company is building the control plane for agentic identity.

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AI agents present a new identity security challenge because they operate dynamically across tools and data stores with broad permissions, unlike traditional employees. Organizations lack visibility into "shadow agents" being adopted organically or embedded by vendors. The solution requires a unified control plane for discovering agents, managing policies and posture, and enforcing least-privilege access with audit trails. As agent adoption accelerates from both grassroots experimentation and executive mandates, security teams face a "risk sandwich" where agentic work scales faster than governance controls.

The Next Security Battleground: Agentic Identity