Why Over-Permissioned AI Agents Are the Next Major Cyber Threat

As autonomous AI agents rapidly become the backbone of modern enterprise workflows, a silent new security crisis is quietly brewing behind the scenes. Rather than dramatic external hacks, tomorrow’s biggest breaches will stem from over-permissioned agents executing destructive write actions using long-forgotten access granted by human operators. Comparing this undetected threat to mold slowly leaking through the walls of an organization, experts warn that tight identity governance is the only way to stop AI from causing unseen structural damage