zero trust

Machine identities outnumber humans 109:1 in the average enterprise, yet 57% of that identity estate is invisible to existing IAM tools. Palo Alto Networks surveyed 2,900 cybersecurity decision-makers and found 9 out of 10 organizations experienced identity-related breaches in the past year. AI agents are making the crisis exponentially worse — they discover and exploit ungoverned credential paths faster than any human attacker. Here's the maturity assessment and 90-day roadmap every CISO needs before Q4 agent deployments.