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The Replicant in Your Directory: AI Agents and the Identity Security Gap
Forty-four years after Blade Runner imagined replicants walking among us, security teams are managing their own version of a non-human workforce. These replicants already have accounts, permissions, and access to sensitive data.
Summary
Forty-four years after Blade Runner imagined replicants walking among us, security teams are managing their own version of a non-human workforce. These replicants already have accounts, permissions, and access to sensitive data. They are AI agents, service accounts, OAuth applications, workload identities, and the growing number of machine identities that already outnumber people in many enterprise environments.
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