"The next major breach won't be a phished password. It will be the result of a massive, unmanaged identity debt. This debt takes many forms: it's the "ghost" identity from a 2015 breach lurking in your IAM, the privilege sprawl from thousands of new AI agents bloating your attack surface, or the automated account poisoning that exploits weak identity verification in financial systems. All of these vectors-physical, digital, new, and old-are converging on one single point of failure: identity."
"This rush is creating a massive new attack surface built on a classic vulnerability: the confused deputy problem. A "deputy" is any program with legitimate privileges. The "confused deputy problem" occurs when a low-privilege entity-like a user, account, or another application-tricks that deputy into misusing its power to gain high privileges. The deputy, lacking the context to see the malicious intent, executes the command or shares results beyond its original design or intentions."
Identity risk will dominate breaches due to accumulated unmanaged identities, privilege sprawl, and weak verification that enable automated account poisoning. Agentic AI will be integrated across technologies by 2026, becoming middleware and creating a vast new attack surface driven by speed-to-market rather than security. The confused deputy problem will let low-privilege actors trick privileged programs or AI agents into misusing access, leading to data exfiltration, malicious deployments, or privilege escalation. Legacy breaches, proliferating AI agents, and poor identity hygiene will converge so identity becomes the single point of failure across physical and digital systems. Proactive identity governance and secure agent controls are required.
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