Security Analysis

Identity Is Becoming the Enterprise Security Perimeter

As applications, users and AI agents operate across multiple environments, identity is becoming the control plane that ties enterprise security together.

The traditional network perimeter is a poor match for organisations that use SaaS, cloud infrastructure, remote work and automated agents. Identity increasingly determines what can act, where and with which privileges.

Human identity was only the beginning

Service accounts, workloads, APIs and agents can vastly outnumber employees.

Privilege is the real issue

The security challenge is not simply authentication, but ensuring every identity receives only the access it needs and that this access can be reviewed.

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