loading . . . Machine Identities Are the Next Security Crisis: Why AI Will Need Its Own Identity Governance For the past decade, the identity conversation in cybersecurity has focused on one thing: humans. Passwords, MFA, phishing-resistant authentication, privileged access management—these have dominated security strategies across cloud and enterprise environments. But in 2026, human identity risk is no longer the biggest source of compromise. Machine identities—representing workloads, APIs, microservices, automation tools, DevOps pipelines, and now AI agents—have become the fastest-growing, least governed, and most frequently overlooked attack surface in the cloud. https://clouddailywire.com/2026/03/machine-identities-are-the-next-security-crisis-why-ai-will-need-its-own-identity-governance/
