SailPoint-The-Year-of-The-AI-Agent-2026.md

The SailPoint 2026 report “The Year of the AI Agent” summarizes a survey of 100 enterprise identity and security leaders and argues that the rapid rise of autonomous AI agents introduces major identity, visibility, governance, and compliance gaps. It presents statistics on adoption and risks (e.g., 91% deploying/evaluating agents, 97% of agents accessing sensitive data), outlines three pillars for securing agents (discovery/visibility, real-time governance/audit, proactive protection/response), maps controls to emerging regulations, and promotes SailPoint’s Agentic Fabric as an identity-centric solution to manage agent lifecycles, enforce least privilege, and provide auditable activity ledgers.