AI agents are redesigning identity management and attackers are already exploiting this gap

The rise of autonomous AI agents has fundamentally changed the enterprise security landscape, and most companies can’t keep up. That’s the warning from Tim Wedande, senior vice president and field CTO at Saviynt, who argued that identity management urgently needs to evolve to address threats that traditional frameworks were never designed to address.

The most significant change in 2026, according to Wedande, is the emergence of AI-powered malware used by threat actors as autonomous agents.