{"id":250379,"date":"2026-05-20T07:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T11:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/agent-ai-is-coming-are-you-ready\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T09:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T13:50:08","slug":"agent-ai-is-coming-are-you-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/agent-ai-is-coming-are-you-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Agent AI is Coming. Are You Ready?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/05\/agent-ai-is-coming-are-you-ready.html\">Agent AI is Coming. Are You Ready?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/05\/agent-ai-is-coming-are-you-ready.html\">https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/05\/agent-ai-is-coming-are-you-ready.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-20 07:58:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"thehackernews.com\">thehackernews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"p-author\">\ue804<span class=\"author\">The Hacker News<\/span>\ue802<span class=\"author\">May 20, 2026<\/span><\/span><span class=\"p-tags\">Identity Security \/ Enterprise Security<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>New Industry Data Just Released Suggests Not.<\/h2>\n<p>On May 19th, 2026, Orchid Security released the results of our Identity Gap: Snapshot 2026. Among the findings, &#8220;identity dark matter&#8221; (the unseen, unmanaged elements of identity) now overshadows the visible elements 57% vs. 43%. And it couldn&#8217;t have occurred at a worse time, with enterprises embracing Agent AI with both arms (and unfortunately, as Orchid co-founder Robert Wiseman explains, more than one eye closed).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What Is the Identity Gap? | Orchid Security\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cDozMaQJgow?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">Why the concern, you may ask?<\/h2>\n<p>AI agents are shortcut-seekers by design. When given a task, they are trained to find the most efficient way to complete it, with the speed of machines and the creativity of humans. Denied access to a necessary system? Use a hard-coded credential stored in plaintext within the application. Need information they aren&#8217;t entitled to read? &#8220;Borrow&#8221; a credential with higher privilege. Constantly being challenged across many different systems? Grab a broadly accepted token. Truly, Agent AI&#8217;s creativity is remarkable. It just cuts both ways.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"627\" data-original-width=\"1201\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjD8MxnljfwiJJQk7B4g2SWBXQkxF-8IazCtzUfEIgoN-4mJ0vp6aJ9aWa1JRGP-JBM1lVAWCVxu7lpWuqdkigibSSx9f5cnEP7pWIoyoZCd9pqicpVAyhT4oP5Pq7-Vn3xW_HKbPqaoAcUYcr-spg9BjFii4a1A_0d0kNtWtEMHP5hHAyE0WhOeABTM9hT\/s1600\/1.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Just because an AI Agent can find a way to access an application, a system, a database, doesn&#8217;t mean that they should do so. But where coding would restrict a traditional nonhuman actor and conscience should give a human pause, in most cases, AI Agents have no such constraints or compunctions.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why well-managed identity and access management is a critical foundation to keeping Agent AI activity within authorized bounds. Look no further than the cloud outages reported at the start of the year to understand this importance.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, IAM shortcuts, gaps, and exceptions have built up over the years. Even decades. So it&#8217;s not reasonable to expect everything to be cleaned up at once. That&#8217;s why the findings from this year&#8217;s Identity Gap Snapshot- the exposures most common across North American and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/05\/agent-ai-is-coming-are-you-ready.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agent AI is Coming. 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