30/08/2026
Here's a stat worth sitting with: in many organizations, service accounts, API keys, automation bots, and AI agents now outnumber human users, and unlike people, they almost never go through onboarding, review, or offboarding.
Add hundreds of SaaS apps, each with its own access model, and most security teams can't confidently answer who has access to what, why they have it, or whether that access is still justified.
Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM) is the response: continuous discovery of identities and entitlements across directories, cloud platforms, SaaS apps, and privileged access tools, paired with risk analytics that flag toxic access, dormant accounts, and over-privileged service accounts. Automated remediation keeps access aligned with policy, and posture reporting gives boards and auditors ongoing proof instead of a once-a-year snapshot.
It doesn't replace IAM, IGA, or ITDR, it fills the gap between them. And the same question is now extending to AI: which identities should be able to interact with AI tools that touch sensitive data, and what should they be allowed to retrieve or generate? Most organizations don't have a clear answer yet.
We break it all down here: https://bit.ly/4gE6C3A
