How AI Agents Are Making Identity Security More ‘Critical’ Than Ever

June 16, 2026 – Published on CRN

As the rush continues around deploying AI agents across organizations of all sizes, one question in particular is becoming impossible for security teams to ignore: Who—or what—is actually getting access to the organization’s IT systems?

And just as important as the visibility question is a second issue relevant to cyber risk: Is that access actually appropriate?

For solution providers, helping to answer those questions for customers has become a massive and growing focus in 2026, as CISOs and CIOs grapple with mandates to securely enable agentic automation within their companies.

That shift is putting even greater pressure on security and IT teams to rethink their approach to identity security and access management—especially around non-human identities, life-cycle governance, least privilege and continuous monitoring, solution provider executives told CRN.

When it comes to identity, ‘we see it as that really necessary piece to help manage anything in the AI space—but specifically agentic,’ says GuidePoint Security identity security leader Kevin Converse.

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