Orphaned AI Agents Retain Privileged Access After Employee Departures

Forensic Summary

Enterprises deploying internal AI agents face a growing identity accountability gap: when the employee who created an autonomous agent leaves, the agent's access tokens and credentials often remain active and unmonitored. Traditional access management tools fail to detect this risk because they treat AI agents as static software rather than identity-bearing entities capable of exfiltrating sensitive data. The problem compounds at scale as shadow AI deployments proliferate across organizations without centralised visibility or ownership tracking.

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