AI agents are operating across production enterprise environments at scale, and the identity infrastructure managing their access has not kept up with their deployment. A January 2026 survey of 228 IT and security professionals, conducted by the Cloud Security Alliance, finds that the majority of organizations have AI agents active in core systems, with fragmented ownership of how those agents authenticate and what they can access. Agents are embedded in production systems Task-automation agents are … More → The post Who owns AI agent access? At most companies, nobody knows appeared first on Help Net Security.