Summer is operationally the most complicated season for security teams, and it’s rarely discussed that way. The conversation tends to focus on threat actors and external risks. The more immediate problem is internal: interns onboarding with broader access than they need, senior staff on extended PTO, temporary employees hired for seasonal peaks, and an organizational…
Most organizations have mature processes for managing human identities. Onboarding, offboarding, access reviews, least privilege — these are established practices, even if execution is inconsistent. The problem is that human identities are no longer the majority of what’s accessing your systems. Service accounts, API keys, OAuth tokens, automation scripts, and now AI agents — non-human…