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What changed The primitives shipped. Microsoft's Entra Agent ID reached general availability in April 2026, extending Zero Trust to non-human identities. Okta's Cross App Access, introduced in June 2025 as an open OAuth extension, spent 2026 widening its ecosystem. A standards body named the risks. OWASP maintains a Non-Human Identities Top 10 covering service accounts, API keys, OAuth tokens, workload identities and AI agents, alongside a Top 10 for Agentic Applications 2026. The money arrived. On deal-tracking counts, startups at the intersection of AI and security raised roughly $855M across more than 150 seed rounds in 2026, on pace for a record year. And so did the postings. Market surveys report AI governance hiring up around 150 per cent year on year, with more than 14,000 open…
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