Early experimentation with agentic AI has given CISOs a preview of the possible cybersecurity nightmares ahead. But with autonomous agent adoption expected to soar throughout 2026, CISOs’ lack of visibility into agentic identities, activities, and decision-making is set to get far worse in quick measure. Agentic use will vary by enterprise, but analysts, consultants, and security vendors agree that their numbers will expand far beyond CISOs’ ability to maintain control as they simultaneously navigate the price of decades of identity governance neglect for non-human identities (NHIs), including service accounts, OAuth tokens, embedded API keys, and automation credentials. Ishraq Khan, CEO of ...