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Netwrix Analysis: AI Agents Widen the Non-Human Identity Gap

Forensic Summary

A Netwrix-sponsored analysis highlights how AI agents are rapidly proliferating machine identities inside enterprise environments, creating credentials and inheriting permissions far faster than existing identity governance can track. The core risk is that AI agents operate outside traditional human-lifecycle identity controls, leaving security teams unable to enumerate what exists, who owns it, or what it can access. Defenders face an expanding blind spot where a single compromised agent credential can chain laterally across cloud services, SaaS platforms, and secrets stores — as demonstrated by the UNC6395/Drift OAuth campaign against Salesforce environments in 2025.


Read the full technical deep-dive on Grid the Grey: https://gridthegrey.com/posts/netwrix-analysis-ai-agents-widen-the-non-human-identity-gap/

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