The Permission Gap: How Unused Access is the Newest Security Crisis
AI agents will soon request infrastructure access alongside humans, and most identity systems are not built for that scale. The teams that are ready solved the fundamentals first by eliminating slow approvals, replacing manual workflows, and automatically removing unused access.
This report analyzes real data from Opal’s platform to show how they rebuilt identity governance for the agentic AI era.
What You’ll Learn
Why access risk keeps growing in most organizations
What AI-ready security teams did differently
How modern identity systems enable speed without losing control

