AI agents are no longer just a conceptual risk; they’ve landed and are storming the beach. From drafting code to executing business logic, these agents are autonomous and increasingly embedded into enterprise workflows. Tasked with responsibilities once reserved for humans, this growing class of shadow identities is acting with wide-ranging access, little oversight, and no clear accountability. Enterprise security models, meanwhile, particularly identity governance, have failed to keep pace. The Rise of Identity-Less Automation As enterprises adopt generative AI tools and low-code platforms, it has become trivial for users to spin up AI agents that execute privileged actions. They often…
Eric Olden
Eric Olden
Eric Olden, CEO of Strata Identity, has made a career out of simplifying and securing enterprise identity management. He founded, scaled, and successfully exited both Securant/ClearTrust (Web Access Management) and Symplified, (the first IDaaS company). Recently Eric served as SVP and GM at Oracle, where he ran the identity and security business worldwide and was responsible for product development, go to market, and partnerships. As a technologist, he was a co-author of the SAML standard, created the first pre-integrated SSO platform, and is the visionary behind the Identity Fabric™.