Everyone Agrees Agent Identity Is the Problem. Nobody Agrees on the Solution.

Enterprise security just discovered that AI agents need identity. In the last week alone: Token Security declared "identity is the new control plane for enterprise security" Strata published 8 strategies for agentic AI security, noting non-human identities outnumber humans 50:1 Insight Partners called Agent IAM "the defining security topic of 2026" Imprivata launched "Agentic Identity Management" for healthcare Nango published a complete guide to securing AI agent API authentication There's consensus on the problem: AI agents act autonomously, make decisions, cross system boundaries, and hold credentials. Legacy IAM wasn't built for this. Everybody agrees. Here's where they diverge: every solution assumes a central authority. The Enterprise Playbook Token Security's argument is compelling: identity replaced the network as the control plane. With agents, identity needs to become the control plane. Their solution? A centralized identity platform that discovers, classifies, and governs ev